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EENET Newsletters : Newsletter 8 Contents
Conceptual paper :‘Overcoming
Exclusion through Inclusive Approaches in Education: A challenge and a
vision’
This is an important policy document for
UNESCO on inclusive education. It has recently been translated into the six
official languages of UNESCO. Together with the Brochure on the Open File, also
available in six languages, it will provide a good background to the basic
ideas and philosophy behind the concept of inclusion in education. It will be
available to download from
UNESCO’s website soon.
Curriculum Differentiation Material
The materials aim at, on a practical level, assisting
countries in implementing inclusive education policies in their schools. The
document will be available to download from
UNESCO’s website in August 2004.
The Open File on Inclusive Education: Support Materials for
Managers and Administrators
This resource addresses assessment,
professional development, the role of families and communities, and the
development of an inclusive curriculum.
Inclusive Schools and Community Support Programmes (Phase 1
1996-1997 and Phase 2 1998-2001)
This UNESCO project was a follow-up to
the Salamanca conference in 1994. More than 20 different countries were
involved and provided a number of examples on how inclusive education can
become an important part of the EFA movement. External evaluators are presently
evaluating the project and the final report will be ready this year (2004).
Understanding and Responding to Children’s Needs in
Inclusive Classrooms: A Guide for Teachers (2001)
This guide provides
practical information about teaching children with particular difficulties in
learning.
Salamanca – Five Years On (1999)
This provides a
review of international developments in moving towards more inclusive education
systems and UNESCO’s contribution to this development.
Special Needs in the Classroom: A Teacher
Education Resource Pack (1993)
This pack provides materials
and processes that can be used in the context of teacher education programmes.
It has been used in over 80 countries. It has recently been revised.
Available from
UNESCO Publishing.
The following three resources are available from: Division of Basic Education, Primary Education Section, UNESCO. Email: sdi@unesco.org
Inclusion in Education: The participation
of disabled learners: A thematic study (2001)
James
Lynch
This study reviews developments in the theory, policy and practice of
inclusive education since the World Conference on Education for All (1990) and
incorporates commissioned and collected material as well as texts produced for
the World Education Forum.
Poverty Eradication through Education:
Breaking the cycle of poverty for children
Ministry of
Education, Uganda, 2003
This publication arose out of an international
workshop held in Uganda in 2002 entitled, ‘Creating an enabling
environment for poverty eradication’.
Towards Inclusive Practices in Secondary
Education (2003)
This book features examples from Chile,
Hungary, Nepal, South Africa, Ukraine and the USA.
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