Can inclusive education be truly inclusive? Can all children benefit? Example from Ghana
Inclusive or exclusive education? More specifically, are we promoting inclusive education in a way that truly benefits all children?
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Category: Education and Disabilities
On data and disability: piloting the Child Functioning Module in Nigerian schools
Disability inclusion has long been a neglected, under-prioritised issue in international development.
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Making assessments more accessible for children with disabilities
The International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) tool, created by Save the Children in 2011, measures children’s early learning and development. Its play-based tasks help evaluate motor development, emergent literacy, emergent numeracy and social-emotional development. The tool is designed to assess children from three to six years old and…
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Transforming Education Summit: our call for world leaders
The countdown begins for world leaders and the international education community to convene in New York on 19 September at the Transforming Education Summit (TES). The summit will mobilise political ambition, action and solutions to transform the future of education and accelerate progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) –…
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How schools in Nepal are including children with disabilities
As Inclusive Futures moves from testing innovations to delivering development programmes at scale, our inclusive education programme in Nepal is helping children with disabilities return to school.
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Home learning for children with disabilities in a pandemic: an analysis of the EENET home learning survey conducted in 2020
This blog was written by Su Corcoran, Helen Pinnock and Rachel Twigg from the Enabling Education Network (EENET). Su and Rachel are also from the Education and Social Research...
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Challenging assumptions: why girls with disabilities return to school
This blog was written by Michelle Sandall, Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) and originally published on the GEC website on 1 October 2021. Since 2012, the Girls’ Education...
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Sightsavers Pushes for Inclusive Education in Mali
This article was written by Nina Eddinger and published in the Borgen Magazine Good News section on 17 August 2021. About 2.2 million people in Mali live with a disability. In...
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Teachers’ perspectives on how school closures affected children with disabilities in Nepal: Parental neglect or systemic failure?
This blog was written by Dr Niraj Poudyal, The School of Arts, Kathmandu University (Nepal); Professor Nidhi Singal, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (UK); and Dr...
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Supporting vulnerable adolescent girls to continue their education should be prioritised in recovery plans for COVID-19
This blog was written by Kath Ford, Young Lives programme and originally published on the Global Education Monitoring Report’s World Education Blog on 18 June 2021. Substantial...
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Reflections on the gendered impact of COVID-19 on education of children with disabilities in Nepal
This blog was written by Dr Shruti Taneja-Johansson, Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg (Sweden); Professor Nidhi Singal, Faculty of...
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No girl with disabilities should be denied the right to education
This blog was written by Liesbeth Roolvink, Sightsavers, and originally published on the Global Partnership for Education blog on 4 June 2021. Building a truly inclusive...
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