EDUCATION
Inclusive Education
Despite progress in achieving EFA, there is increasing evidence that current strategies and programmes have been largely insufficient or inappropriate in meeting the needs of children, youth and adults who are vulnerable to marginalization and exclusion, such as minority language speakers, working children etc.
Adopted at the Salamanca World Conference on Special Needs Education (1994) and restated in the Dakar Framework of Action (paragraph 4), inclusive education is a process of addressing and responding to the diverse needs of all learners by reducing barriers to,and within, the learning environment. The overall goal of inclusive education, is thus the realization of a school (or any organized educational provision) where all learners are participating and treated equally, and which also proactively seeks and reaches out to anylearner who is left behind.
This website aims to work as a portal for information regarding Inclusive Education in the Asia-Pacific region.
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The latest EEnet newsletter issues
Children’s voices are heard throughout the 6th issue of EENET Asia Newsletter, from schools in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Tajikistan, while teachers from Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan are writing about their experiences in making schools more inclusive and child-friendly. For latest issues of EENET Newletters please click here.
Regional Preparatory Workshop on Inclusive Education in East Asia
3-5 November 2007, Hangzhou, China
Workshop on Inclusive Education and Child Friendly Schools
New Delhi - 21-23 November
This all highlights the progress that has been made throughout the region over the past few years. Reports from programmes on inclusive education in Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Lao, Pakistan and Timor-Leste encourages us to move forward and gives us ideas on how inclusive education can be implemented in countries where there are few resources. For latest of versions of EENET newsletters, click here. Recent events
News and upcoming events
Regional Seminar on “Promoting Rights-Based Approach in Pre-service Teacher Education and Training towards EFA in the Asia-Pacific Countries” 25-27 May, 2009 ,Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The regional seminar was organized under the framework of the regional project on “Strengthening Teacher Training to achieve EFA” which was launched in October 2007. The project was initiated with the aim of improving the quality of teachers in the Asia-Pacific region by promoting reforms in national pre-service teacher training systems with the introduction of a holistic perspective in policies, institutional aims and strategies as well as training curricula.
The purpose of the Regional Seminar was to share the national situational analysis of pre-service teacher training systems which was conducted in the seven project countries during 2008 and early 2009 in namely Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Nepal and Viet Nam.
The Regional Seminar was hosted by the Royal Government of Cambodia and was jointly organized by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) of Cambodia, UNESCO Phnom Penh Office and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok. Read more