Tag: Inclusion
Disability-inclusive education: An analysis of commitments made at global summits
Since 2018, the two Global Disability Summits have provided a strong platform to amplify the voices of persons with disabilities. These events have each attracted over 200 stakeholder groups to advocate for disability inclusion in development cooperation.
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Why is language critical in education during crises?
Where education is considered within a crisis response, language is a component that can be overlooked, thus creating issues of access, inclusion, identity and safety for those children affected.
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The key to inclusive education is engaging organisations of people with disabilities
In global development programmes, despite widespread recognition of the need to be more inclusive, it’s still not standard practice for organisations to consult with and involve people with disabilities – even for those programmes that specifically want to reach people with disabilities.
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Farmer Research Networks in Malawi as a socially just model of inclusive knowledge co-creation
This article provides a video of a presentation given at the September 2023 UKFIET conference by team members from Statistics for Sustainable Development (Stats4SD).
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I AIN’T NO AFTERTHOUGHT: Challenging the non-prioritisation of the educational rights of children with disabilities
This blogpost presents a poem that Basirat Razaq-Shuaib delivered at the 2023 UKFIET Conference. The poem draws attention to the non-prioritisation of children with disabilities...
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Thinking again about agency for inclusion: Analysing leadership data through local and global perspectives
How can leaders be supported to initiate small local changes in schools and classrooms in ways that provide agency and have the potential for scaling? What happens with a bottom-up approach to change and how far does the status quo move in communities?
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Rights, equity and inclusion: Highlights from UKFIET 2023 conference sub-theme
It was great to be back in person at UKFIET 2023, and together with the online day the week before, we managed to hear a multitude of contributions to the Rights, Equity and Inclusion theme. Here are some key thoughts and take aways that we gathered over the course of…
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Rights, equity and inclusion – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme
We are excited about learning new ways about what works in our collective effort to achieve quality education for all. We hope to learn about challenges and failures equally to successes and good practices, how to tackle intersectionality, and overcoming barriers - especially those that are often forgotten or considered…
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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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Storytelling research in international education and development: a resistance to, or reproduction of coloniality?
This blog was written by Alison Buckler, Senior Research Fellow, The Open University; Jennifer Agbaire, Research Associate, The Open University; Joanna Wheeler, Director,...
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SMILE: designing a participatory project to promote inclusive education in Nigeria
This blog was written by Liesbeth Roolvink, Global Technical Lead Education Systems, and Gillian Mackay, Social Inclusion Monitoring, Evidence and Learning Manager, Sightsavers....
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Ethics in education: Do global results frameworks advance or impede progress towards inclusive education goals?
This article was written by Jerry Mindes, who leads the Secretariat of the Inclusive Education Collaborative, an influencing platform established earlier this year, and is the...
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