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“Education is like a meal. We adults prepare and
cook the food.
Then we say you children haven’t digested it
properly.”
Anupam Ahuja
Editorial
Parents
News
Dakar Calls for Action
Inclusive Methodology
Focus on Policy: Zambia
Democratisation of the classroom: Zambia
Presentation Skills Workshop
Including the Excluded - ISEC 2000
Overcoming Resource Barriers - an EENET Symposium at
ISEC
Mamello's Story
Producing a local newsletter - "HOA NHAP" Vietnam
Friends of EENET
The EENET Interview: Ed-Todos, Brazil
Your letters
Enabling Jetha to
learn, Nepal
Useful Publications
Download newsletter 5 as PDF (190 k)
Spanish translation
Portuguese translation
Isolation from information marginalises and further impoverishes excluded groups. Encouraging those who wish to foster more inclusive forms of education to document their work and share it with others is central to the Enabling Education Network’s mission. The sharing of information and ideas helps to reduce that isolation. However the information needs to be clear, lively and accessible if it is to be useful.
“It is not enough to share information about inclusion. Inclusive practice and methodology has to be at the heart of everything that EENET does”
Most practitioners are too busy to write about their work, but they benefit from reading about others doing similar work. Academic writing tends to be inaccessible to most practitioners and is therefore of little practical benefit. So how do we encourage those people who are doing the most interesting work to document and share their experience?
EENET is about to embark upon a
2-year action learning project funded by the Department for International
Development (DFID) in the UK, which aims to address exactly this dilemma. It is
entitled, “Understanding community initiatives to improve access to
education”, and will take place in India, Zambia and Tanzania. The
research aims to develop appropriate and sustainable ways of building the
capacity of key stakeholders to document their experience of promoting more
inclusive practices in education in their own communities.
“A network which talks inclusion should also walk inclusion"
We intend that as more individuals and organisations become Friends of EENET and develop partnerships, the network will increasingly become regionalised. The gathering of information in appropriate languages should then become easier. We welcome your suggestions about how we can make regionalisation work best for you.
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01/05/2001