Implementing Inclusive Education: A Commonwealth Guide to Implementing Article 24 of the un Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rieser, Richard, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Implementing Inclusive Education

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Commonwealth Secretariat 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This revised and expanded second edition of Implementing Inclusive Education shows how Commonwealth countries are attempting to undertake inclusion in education, and will encourage all those charged with ensuring education for all to make certain that disabled children are fully included in all aspects of the education system.

Contents:

Cover

Acknowledgements

Credits

About the author

Contents

Foreword

1. Introduction

Adoption of the Convention

The Commonwealth and the Convention

What do young disabled people want?

The long road to inclusive education

2. Inclusive Education: The Global Situation

Why is there so little progress on including disabled children in EFA?

3. Changing Attitudes to Disability

The shift from charity thinking to social and human rights thinking

The development of charity and medical model thinking

The development of social model thinking

4. Inclusive Education

Segregation, integration and inclusion

Integration or inclusion?

Inclusion for all: Is it a tool for bringing about disability equality in education?

The disability rights education model

Community-based rehabilitation

Identifying early childhood needs

Effective inclusive education

The costs of inclusion

Gender and inclusion

Inclusive education for disabled indigenous peoples

Key factors in the development of inclusive education

5. Developing and Implementing Policy Internationally

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

International Disability Alliance

The Commonwealth

Disabled Peoples' International

Disability Rights Fund

Department for International Development, UK

The policy positions of international donors

Education International

Enabling Education Network

European Union

Inclusion International

International Disability and Development Consortium

Leonard Cheshire Disability

Making It Work

Save the Children

UNESCO

UNICEF

World Bank

World Health Organization

World Vision

Conclusion

6. Developing National Inclusion Policies

Involving disabled people's organisations

Involving the parents of disabled children.

What progress are states making in implementing inclusive education?

Inclusion and the HIV/AIDS pandemic

7. Inclusion at Provincial, Regional and District Level

Involving disabled children and young people

Inclusion at district level

8. Inclusive Schools and Classrooms

Accommodating disabled pupils

UNESCO Toolkit

Index for Inclusion

Getting school buildings right

Teaching sensory-impaired children in poorer countries

Children with profound or multiple impairments

Training and employing disabled teachers

Implementing the Discrimination Act in schools in England: Reasonable adjustments

Annex: Reasonable adjustments in the classroom - a checklist

9. Preventing Drop-out: Developing Inclusive Teaching and Learning

Challenging and changing attitudes in the community

Barriers to inclusion

Bringing disability into the curriculum

Assessment

Teacher training and professional development

10. Conclusion

How effective is inclusive education?

World Report on Disability, 2011

Overcoming negative attitudes

Scaling up pilot projects

Inclusion: the 'magic formula'

The way forward

Getting started

Appendices

1. Useful Resources

2. The Long Road to Inclusive Education for Disabled Children

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

1-283-71667-4

1-84859-127-6

OCLC:

973793139