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M.Ed./Diploma in Inclusive Education
This M.Ed. programme provides students with the opportunity to engage critically with theory, research and practice in the field of special and inclusive education. The programme deliberately sets out to explore a range of different perspectives. Students have opportunities to observe school practice and to carry out their own research projects in schools. In this way the programme addresses global issues of inclusion, while at the same time enabling students to engage with, and study, the ways in which governments, local authorities, schools and local communities can reduce barriers to participation and learning for all children. Students have included: teachers, deputy head teachers, education advisers, parents and teaching assistants.
Entry Requirements: Ideally, applicants will be graduates of an approved university and have an approved teaching qualification. However applicants with other relevant experience of working in education are encouraged to apply.
Registration is in September each year, and the course is either 1 year full-time, or 2-3 years part-time. If you would like any further information, please contact the Admissions Secretary, Miss Janet Grimshaw:
School of Education
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
UK
Office tel: +44 (0) 161 275 3463/3286
Office fax: +44 (0) 161 275 3528
Website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taughtdegrees/courses/atoz/course/?code=06710
The Programme Director of the MEd programme is Susie Miles who continues to play a consultancy role in EENET, and there are strong links between EENET and the M.Ed. programme.
People Potential: Workshops for Active Learning and Play
People Potential (based in Hampshire, UK) runs short courses on the design of educational materials. See www.peoplepotential.org.uk for details.
We all use tools to enhance our lives and make daily living tasks easier. These ‘tools’ range from knives for preparing food to soap for washing ourselves. Similarly ‘tools’ can enhance a child’s learning process. We could probably manage to cut bread with a penknife, but would cut a far neater slice with a bread knife. It is important that tools are designed for a specific purpose. Teaching tools should also be specially designed for their intended purpose. The inclusion of disabled children in mainstream schools or kindergartens gives a new impetus to designing materials to meet the needs of all learners and this often leads to better classroom management.
Teaching materials, games and toys designed at People Potential workshops reflect local interests and cultural values, and are therefore different from commercial products. Creative solutions are more easily found when looking at the problem through many different eyes. Designing in a group is highly recommended because new ideas are created, useful material produced and everyone has fun!
Inclusive Education: What Works for Disabled Children? Developing Evidence-based Policy in the South
A one-day international workshop for practitioners and decision-makers
Thursday 6th September 2007
ORT House Conference Centre, London
9am-5.30pm, followed by a Networking Reception
Price: £60 (£35 for students)
This one-day International Workshop will showcase concrete examples of good practice for including children with disabilities in education. Field professionals from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Madagascar, Nicaragua and Rwanda will present innovative and successful projects from the South. International inclusive education experts, such as Susie Miles, Evariste Karangwa, Micheline Mason and Mimi Lusli will open the event with key note speeches.
The event is intended for decision / policy-makers in the North and South, practitioners involved in delivering education projects, donors, non-governmental organisations and academic institutions.
This event consists of three consecutive workshop sessions (several subjects available per slot) that will enable our facilitators to cover a wide range of Inclusive Education hot topics, including:
Following the event, models and examples will be documented to share learning among participants.
Please click here to download the registration form (pdf 602k).
Closing date for registration: 27th July 2007.
For further information, please visit www.handicap-international.org.uk.
Contact person: Isabelle Cartoux
Telephone: 0870 7743737
Email: isabelle.cartoux@hi-uk.org
Mainstreaming Education for Children with Disabilities
A course focusing on educational approaches, techniques and methods for teaching children with disabilities, adaptation of school, classroom, teaching and learning aids and co-curricular activities, assistive devices, referral services and individual education plan.
Suitable for: Supervisors involved in education programmes, teachers and parents
Duration: 18-23 December 2006 (6 days)
Last date of registration: 1 December 2006
Course fees: Residential: Tk. 5995/- Non-Residential: Tk. 5395/-
Contact: Centre for Disability in Development (CDD), D-55/3, Talbag, Savar, Dhaka-1340, Bangladesh. Tel: +880 2 7711379/ 7711467. Mobile:+ 0173 021695. Telefax: +880 2 7711467 (ext.207). E-mail: cdd@bangla.net. Website: www.cdd.org.bd
Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) is a leading disability resource organisation working to promote equal rights and opportunities for persons with disabilities.
Developing Inclusive Schools - Second International Conference
Moscow, 18-20 November 2005
Click here for more details.
Click here to read a summary of the proceedings of the first international conference “Inclusive Education: Perspectives for Development in Russia.”
Inclusive Education conference organised by Stichting Perspectief
31 October - 2 November 2005, The Netherlands
Click here for more details. This conference will have focus on experiences from The Netherlands and New Zealand.
International Conference for Sign Language Interpreters
31 October - 2 November 2005, Worcester, South Africa
This conference will be unique in its endeavour to bring together Sign Language interpreters from across the world. Organisers are interested in obtaining papers which reflect the breadth and variety of interpreting experience, and in sharing new thoughts on interpreter training. Abstracts (in Word for Windows format) should be submitted by 4 April 2005. They should be a minimum of 100 and no more than 300 words, and be accompanied by the author’s contact details and short biography. Full papers will only be required after acceptance of an abstract and not to be more than 3000 words, including references. Submission date will be no later than 4 th July 2005.
To send an abstract, email Liz Scott Gibson at: lsg@deafaction.org
or by mail to:
Liz Scott Gibson
Deaf Action Head Office
49 Albany Street
Edinburgh,
EH1 3QYUK
Inclusion and the Removal of Barriers to Learning, Participation and Development: Inclusive and Child Friendly Schools Emerging in Asia
International Symposium to be held in Indonesia, 26-29 September 2005
For more information:
Download leaflet in PDF (152k)
Visit www.idp-europe.org
Write to
Braillo Norway
P.O. Box 1365 JKS
12013 Jakarta
Indonesia
Or email symposium2005id@idp-europe.org
Disability: A Global Perspective on Rights to Education and Livelihoods
Bangkok, October 2005
Conference organised by Leonard Cheshire International and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia (UNESCAP)
In October academics and practitioners from around the world will come together in an active forum for debate and dissemination of knowledge on issues of Education for All and the Economic Empowerment of people with disabilities. The Conference will launch a series of global annual meetings on disability, and aims to support the United Nation’s efforts to realise the goal of the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Disabled People.
For more information, download flier in PDF (175k), or go to the LCI website
1-4 August 2005
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
ISEC 2005 is a forum for understanding the principles and practices of developing educational systems that include all students, whatever their age and their need for support. This prestigious international conference is a platform for practitioners and academics with an interest in inclusive education. The conference is an opportunity for people involved in inclusive and supportive education around the world to:
Keynote speakers include:
The delegate fee is £250 if you book before 31 March 2005 and £290 thereafter.
Glasgow is Scotland’s largest city and is well served by international airports and convenient road and rail links. The city is a major tourist destination and has been described as ‘the finest specimen of Victorian architecture in Europe’. Glasgow benefits from internationally acclaimed museums and galleries, outstanding shopping and superb bars and restaurants. It is also at the gateway to some of Scotland’s most spectacular scenery.
The University of Strathclyde was founded as a place of useful learning, to make higher education available to all, and to combine excellence with relevance. It provides high-quality education to all of its students, regardless of background, inspiring them to develop their abilities to the full. Through excellence in research and scholarship it aims to generate new ideas, knowledge and skills and to create opportunities for individuals and society. We are delighted to invite you to our campus in the centre of Glasgow for ISEC 2005.
For further details, including the Call for Papers and Proposal Form, please see our website at www.isec2005.org.uk or contact:
Conference Administrator
Professional Development Unit
University of Strathclyde
76 Southbrae Drive
Glasgow G13 1PP
Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)141 950 3052
Fax: +44 (0)141 950 3210
Email: isec.2005@strath.ac.uk
Click here for a Portugese translation of this information about ISEC 2005
International Congress on the Education of the Deaf – ICED 2005
17-20 July 2005, Maastricht, Netherlands
This congress offers an opportunity for the exchange of ideas, experiences, ongoing innovations and future plans. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 December 2004 and the deadline for ‘early-bird’ registration is 1 March 2005. For more information see www.iced2005.org or contact the organisers at:
P.O. Box 1402, 6201 BK Maastricht, the Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)43 3619192
Fax: +31(0)43 3619020 or +31(0) 43 3560152
E-mail: info@conferenceagency.com
Supporting Deaf People - online conference
The third in the highly successful series of Supporting Deaf People online conferences will take place on 10th - 16th March 2005.
Take part in this conference wherever you are in the world!
Keynote presentations:
Seminar presentations:
Costs are UK£55 (approximately US$110, depending on current exchange rate) per person.
Online conferences are easy to use, people can participate flexibly and the information is available to delegates for a month after the end of the conference. To see more information, abstracts, presenter bios, register, etc. please visit http://www.online-conference.net/sdp3/index.htm
The Third International World Wide Conference on Education and
Social Integration and Inclusion
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 6-8
May 2004
Subjects
Fees
US$80.00 (If paid before 15 January
2004)
US$100.00 (If paid after 15 January 2004)
For further information and assistance please contact the following coordinators and organizers:
CSNSIE Inaugural International Conference. Inclusive Education: A Framework for Reform
16-19 December 2003 at the Hong Kong Institute of Education
Registration deadline: 15 September 2003
The mission of Centre for Special Needs and Studies in Inclusive Education (CSNSIE), at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, is to support schools, teachers and parents to develop inclusive education and special needs support so that all children have an equal access to high quality education. This inaugural conference of the CSNSIE will provide a unique and exciting opportunity for educators in Hong Kong to meet with international participants. The discussion during the conference and the exchange of insights and experiences will help each other to develop better understanding and formulate new strategies in relation to policies, procedures, and practices, to support children with disabilities.
Main themes covered by the conference will be:
For more information please follow this linkhttp://www.ied.edu.hk/csnsie/icie2003/index.htm.
Centre for Special Needs and Studies in Inclusive Education (CSNSIE),
and Department of Educational Psychology, Counselling and Learning Needs
(EPCL),
The Hong Kong Institute of Education
10 Lo Ping Road,
Tai
Po,
New Territories,
Hong Kong,
SAR,
China
Email: csnsie@ied.edu.hk
Tel:
(852) 2948 8502
Fax: (852) 2948 7993
Disability and Education systems: a comparative analysis - AFEC Conference 2003
This conference will take place 26-28 May 2003, in Lyon, France and the language of the conference will be French. It is organised by the French Association of Comparative Education (AFEC) and the Handicap, Education and Society Research Centre (CRHES) at the University of Lyon II. The organising committee consists of members from France, Scotland and the Cameroon.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: December 1st 2002
For more details contact Denis Poizat: denis.poizat@univ-lyon2.fr
For more information about the French Association of Comparative Education (AFEC) see: www.educ.ucl.ac.be/afec/index.htm
The National Seminar on 'Inclusive Education Practices in Schools'
To be held on 26th and 27th February 2003 at:
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Race Course Road
Bangalore 560
001
India
and
Ashirvad
St. Marks Road Cross
Bangalore
India
For more details please download the 2 page brochure in Word Format (38k)
November 11-15, 2002
There is to be an Inclusion Week held across the whole of the UK in November 2002 with the invitation to all overseas countries to join in and arrange events at the same time which promote inclusion. The theme of the week is breaking down barriers to learning and participation, as well as developing and celebrating inclusion. The week is being organised by the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (CSIE) in the UK as part of its 20th anniversary.
CSIE will put on a few events and is inviting people to arrange their own events which will then be publicised in a CSIE magazine and on a website. The central aim of the week is to highlight the importance of building inclusive schools. While many exclusionary pressures exist in education and elsewhere, much progress has been made with inclusion in recent years and this should be acknowledged.
The event is open for anyone to take part in, if they support inclusion as an essential part of building a better and more just society. CSIE hopes the week will encourage guarantees of support for developing inclusive education in schools and elsewhere.
For further information see website:
www.inclusionweek.net
Or contact: Mark Vaughan, Founder
and Co-Director, CSIE
Tel : 0044 (0)117 344 4007
mark@markvaughan.demon.co.uk
Ethnic Minority Conference - Raising attainment for ethnic minority pupils and students and challenging racism throughout the education system
10-11 October 2002
The conference offers the opportunity to hear about successful strategies used in Britain and the United States to address these issues.
Speakers from both Britain and the USA, including Prof. Audrey Osler, Prof. David Gillborn, Prof. Jagdish Gundara, Dr. Maud Blair, Prof. Theresa Perry, Prof. Pedro Noguero, Prof. Patricia Sullivan & Prof. Waldo Martin Jnr.
The conference will cover such issues as Promoting Ethnic Minority Achievement, Challenging Racist Exclusions, Using History to Engage Ethnic Minority Pupils, Teacher Education & Institutional Racism in FE and HE, Language Acquisition.
Workshops will address key practical issues such as: Managing Change City Wide Utilising Community & Other Existing Resources to support National Curriculum Work Addressing Racism & Cultural Diversity from Early Years through to High School Managing Change - Whole School Approach, Adult Education, Combatting Institutional Racism in FE and HE, FE and HE and Widening Participation.
The Conference is being organised by the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, supported by Manchester City Council, the University of Manchester, the Progress Trust, and the Lipman-Miliband Trust.
If you are interested please ask for a registration form from:
The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust,
Ground Floor, Devonshire
House,
Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PL.
Tel. (011) +44(9)161 275 2920
Fax. (011) +44(9)161 275 0916
Email:
mail@anti-racisteducation.org.uk
or visit www.anti-racisteducation.org.uk
THE BRITISH COUNCIL: Realising Inclusive Education: Forwarding a Global Agenda
22-27 September, 2002
Newcastle, United Kingdom
The challenge set by the Salamanca Declaration (UNESCO 1994) of creating more inclusive education systems highlighted a number of emerging issues and dilemmas for all national education systems. Despite the differences that exist between national contexts it is, however, clear that in resolving these dilemmas policy makers and practitioners are faced with a number of common issues. This seminar will bring together key policy makers from a range of national contexts in a forum in which these dilemmas can be reviewed and analysed. Presentations by leading international policy analysts and researchers in the field of inclusive education will serve as a focus for more in-depth analysis and discussion.
For more information, contact:
The British Council
1 Beaumont Place
Oxford OX1 2PJ
UK
Tel: 00 44 1865 316636
Fax: 00 44 1865 516590 / 557368
Email:
yellowteam.seminars@britishcouncil.org
www.britishcouncil.org/networkevents/2000/0243p.htm
What does the South Really Want from the North? : An EENET & Deaf Africa Fund seminar
Comfort Inn, Edgaston, Birmingham : June 7-8 2002
This seminar is a follow-up to two previous seminars organised by EENET at the University of Manchester. The seminars focused on the particular challenge of including deaf children in education in southern countries. See reports for more details.
Experience will be shared from countries as diverse as Somaliland, Kenya and Brazil. There will be ample time for discussion and sign language interpreters will be present throughout.
The cost of attending the seminar is £65 all inclusive. It will begin at 6.30pm on June 7th, and finish at 4.30pm on June 8th. There will be some day places available for January 8th at a cost of £30. Cheques should be made payable to 'The University of Manchester'. Limited places are available and these will be allocated on a 'first-come' basis. If you wish to reserve a place at this seminar, please send a deposit of £10 (by March 1st) to:
Miss Doreen Woodford
Chapel Cottage
7 King Street
Much
Wenlock
Shropshire TF13 6BL
Tel: +44 (0)1952 727093
Fax: +44 (0)1952
728473
Alternatively, contact EENET.
The world wide right to education of children with a disability: How to proceed? (The Netherlands)
This was the title of a seminar organised by the Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development and the Instituut vor Dooven (Institute for the Deaf) on 24th May 2002. The seminar was attended by 50 participants. Susie Miles gave a presentation which drew on EENET's experience, and case studies were presented about Vietnam, India and Russia.
The report lists a number of action points under the heading 'Getting disability into education for all'. They are divided into action which needs to be taken at the donor level, and action at the school level.
The full version of the report is available on the DCDD website
www.dcdd.nl/default.asp?action=article&id=1457
Learning from Difference : an EENET seminar
Foz do Arelho, Portugal : May 21-22, 2002
EENET invites education practitioners to attend a 2 day seminar in Portugal in May 2002. The aim is to explore ways of sharing international experiences regarding initiatives to encourage the development of inclusive education.
There will be a range of activities at the seminar : a small number of presentations from the major regions in the world and in-depth debates about difference and diversity and the future of inclusive education. It will be an opportunity to share experiences and explore ways of extending the coverage of EENET's network.
We are unfortunately unable to cover the costs of flights to and from Portugal, but all travel costs in Portugal will be covered. Some funds will be available to subsidise the accommodation costs for a small number of participants.
There will be limited space at the seminar - 15 places altogether. Please get in touch with EENET's coordinator if you are interested in attending. You should mention your particular involvement in education and networking, and the country and region in which you are working.
Please contact Susie Miles at EENET as soon as possible, if you
are interested in attending.
email info@eenet.org.uk
" PROMOTING THE RESILIENCE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN AFRICA"
3 - 5 October 2001, Regent Hotel Conference Centre, East London, South Africa.
Jointly organised by Disabled Peoples of South Africa(DPSA), Down Syndrome South Africa (DSSA) , Disabled Children Action Group (DICAG) , Office of the status of Disabled People (OSDP) and Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (REHAB).
Contact: ABO Facilitators Tel/Fax: +27 43 7210607 E-mail: abofacil@iafrica.com Web site: http://www.geocities.com/abofacilitators
Against all odds - Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus in developing countries
if and CCBRT invite you to the 13th International Conference for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
28-29 September 2001
For more information about the conference, the first of its kind in a developing country, please visit http://www.ifglobal.org/daressalaam/againstallodds.htm
Human Rights in Africa in the New Millennium
An international conference to be held at the University of Central Lancashire
14th - 16th September 2001
Organised by the African Studies Unit, University of Central Lancashire in association with the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASA-UK), Lynne Rienner Publishers, Review of African Political Economy(ROAPE)
For further details visit http://www.uclan.ac.uk/business_services/conf/index.htm
Namibia - A National Workshop on Inclusive Education In Teacher Training was held in Windhoek, in August 2001.
It was funded by The Association for Children with Language, Speech and Hearing Impairments of Namibia (CLaSH), UNESCO and the Namibia National Commission for UNESCO.
The purpose of the workshop was to assess the status of inclusive education in Namibia; to develop a common understanding of inclusive education in the Namibian context; to discuss the integration of inclusive education principles into the curricula of teacher education programmes; to consider ways of implementing these principles in practice at school level.
Click to get the full workshop report in either word or rtf format.
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