Education

Educational inclusion relates to all children accessing and meaningfully participating in quality education, in ways that respond to their individual needs. This new edition of insights shows some of the complexities of inclusion across international, national and local contexts and highlight a range of exclusions and actions needed to improve inclusive practices in these contexts.

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Why do Malawian student fare poorly in science?: ( E.N.N. Dzama / National Research Council of Malawi , 2007); In 1942 examiners from Makerere, Uganda, found students at Blantyre Secondary School, Malawi, to be weak in science and mathematics. Since that time performance of Malawian students in these subjects ...
The multi-dimensional role of higher schooling inequality in decelerating liberalisation: ( J.R. Behrman;N. Birdsall;G. Pettersson / Center for Global Development, USA , 2010); This paper examines the relationship between structural, high inequality - measured by high levels of schooling inequality - and liberalisation of the financial sector for a sample of 37 developing...
Asia and the Pacific: strengthening gender equality: ( A. Rajivan;E. Borsatti;H. Cheema / United Nations Development Programme , 2010); In every country across Asia and the Pacific, pervasive gender inequality remains a barrier to progress, justice and social stability, and deprives the region of a significant source of human poten...
Guiding schools through a process of inclusive school development: ( T. Booth;M. Ainscow / Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Bristol , 2010); The Index for Inclusion is a set of materials to guide schools through a process of inclusive school development. It is about building supportive communities and fostering high achievement for all sta...
Strengthening the focus on inclusion in strategies and plans for education: ( International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO , 2009); These guidelines explain the relevance of inclusive education and describe how inclusion is linked to Education for All. They outline the key elements in the shift towards inclusion with a particular ...
The importance of children’s experiences of preschool and first grade: ( P. Ames;V. Rojas;T. Portugal / Young Lives , 2009); Literature has pointed to the importance of children’s experiences of preschool and first grade as foundational for success during the subsequent school years. This paper attempts to examine the...
Exploring the social and economic situation of people with disabilities in India: ( P. O’Keefe / World Bank , 2007); There is growing evidence that people with disabilities comprise a sizable group of the Indian population. This report explores their social and economic situation and discusses the required public an...
Disabled young people's perceptions of the role played by education in their lives, India: ( N. Singal;R. Jeffery;A. Jain / Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty , 2009); This paper analyses data on how disabled young people in urban and rural India understand the role played by education in their lives. The research aimed to gain access to the voices, views, feelings ...
Shifting focus from tactics to strategy in the education of nomadic pastoralists: ( S. Krätli;C. Dyer / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2009); Learners from nomadic pastoralist communities face peculiar difficulties in accessing and continuing with education programs which are designed for settled communities. This publication develops solut...
A comprehensive analysis of actions necessary to undertake a rights-based approach to achieving EFA: ( G. Lansdown;M. Clark (ed);D. Craissati (ed) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2007); This document is a comprehensive analysis of actions necessary to undertake a rights-based approach to achieving EFA. It offers a comprehensive framework of strategies and actions...