Inclusive Education and Disability Task Team
New: INEE’s Task Team on Inclusive Education and Disability is pleased to announce the publication of the INEE Pocket Guide to Supporting Learners with Disabilities! To learn more about this guide, and how to obtain a copy, please click here.
The Task Team’s other product - the INEE Pocket Guide to Inclusive Education is also available, just click here.
Task Team Aim
Promote the key principles, behaviours and actions necessary to ensuring that all excluded and marginalised people are included in emergency education opportunities.
Objectives for the Task Team (over the next year):
- Produce resources useful to emergency practitioners which give practical advice on making inclusive education a reality
- Influence emergency education training schemes to promote inclusive education principles and practice more effectively
- Produce advocacy messages and information which can be used to get greater attention and support for inclusive education in emergencies
- Work with INEE membership at the INEE Global Consultation in 2009 to identify further action by the INEE network to promote inclusive education in emergencies.
The conveners of the Task Team send updates on the work of the Team, and highlights relevant news and resources. See here for previous updates: November 2009 February 2010 April 2010 September 2010
An article entitled, Education access for all by Task Team convenors Helen Pinnock and Marian Hodgkin is published in the latest issue of Forced Migration Review. The authors emphasise that it is important to make clear that committing to inclusion is not about demanding the impossible or reaching for unrealistic goals but rather about allowing the principles of inclusion to inform all work, asking who is currently excluded from learning and participation and what all of us can do to improve the situation. Read more here
Conveners
- Helen Pinnock (Save the Children UK).
- INEE Focal Point: Lori Heninger
Key Resources
- INEE Pocket Guide to Supporting Learners with Disabilities
- INEE Pocket Guide to Inclusive Education (available in English, French, and Spanish)
- INEE Minimum Standards Toolkit Thematic Guide: Disability and Inclusive Education
- The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education
- Inclusive Education: An EFA Strategy for All Children (by Susan Peters)
- Index for Inclusion (available in several different languages, for several different contexts)
- Developing Learning and Participation in Countries of the South: The Role of an Index for Inclusion (by Tony Booth & Kristine Black-Hawkins)
Useful Websites
- Enabling Education Network (EENET)
- Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education
- Information on the Salamanca Statement
- World Bank on Education and Disability (many useful documents)
Student at a school for hearing impaired children in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mats Lignell, Save the Children.
