Key resources on inclusive education

An inclusive education key list of resources has been produced with the Source International Information Centre. It includes practical guides on how to include disabled children in the classroom, case-studies of inclusive education experience, guidance materials for managers and policy documents. As well as printed resources, the list includes websites, e-forums and organisations. A separate section contains resources aimed at parents.

Why is it important?
Over recent years, approaches in education for disabled children have moved from special needs education to inclusive education (IE), reflecting a move from the medical to the social model of disability, as well as a growing human rights focus in the disability field. These developments have come about through activism by disabled people and parents of disabled children.

A landmark date in the movement towards inclusive education was 1994, when the Salamanca Statement declared that schools should accept all children regardless of disability or special educational need. More than 10 years after Salamanca, there are many differing views - in both developed and developing countries - about how to implement inclusive education.

For some practitioners the concept of inclusive education has been widened to encompass other issues as well as disability, such as gender, ethnicity and HIV status, so that schools can truly be ‘Schools for All’, while for others the concern is to ensure that segregated education continues for some groups of children.

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