Global inclusive education updates from EENET and other organisations.
[Blog]: Liberia: a safe environment welcomes children back at schoolRead ‘Liberia: a safe environment welcomes children back at school’. This blog article highlights how, with support from GPE and UNICEF, the government of Liberia is making good progress in promoting safe learning and ensuring children can stay healthy while in school. [Resource]: The Atlas Alliance Foundation has a brand new website
The Atlas Alliance Foundation is an umbrella organisation for persons with disabilities that works to promote the rights and improve living conditions of people with disabilities in the global South. They have now launched their brand new website. In 2019, Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation within the Norwegian government, announced new funding … Continue reading [Resource]: The Atlas Alliance Foundation has a brand new website Home learning materials distributed in Puntland
78 educational staff and volunteers delivered home learning booklets and posters to 930 marginalized households in late December in Puntland, Somalia. The home learning resources were developed by EENET and NAD and adapted for Somalia in collaboration with Save the Children, ADRA and with guidance from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education. The … Continue reading Home learning materials distributed in Puntland [Paper]: Inclusive education and assistive technology
Paula Hunt (2021) ‘Inclusive education: The case for early identification and early intervention in assistive technology‘. This paper, published in the journal Assistive Technology, argues that, if assistive technology is an enabler for learning, then the processes by which children with disabilities are identified as users of assistive technology must take place as early as … Continue reading [Paper]: Inclusive education and assistive technology Child Rights Resource Centre
Save the Children has improved and re-launched its extensive resource collection. It covers a wide range of child rights issues, including many documents on disability inclusion and on education. It’s available in English, French, Spanish, and Swedish.