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EENET Asia Newsletter - Sixth Issue
"The goal of education for All can only be achieved if authorities, schools and communities recognize their legal and moral responsibility towards All Children."
Dear readers, welcome to the 6th issue of the EENET Asia Newsletter. Venita Kaul has been invited to write a guest-editorial about early childhood education as a foundation for life. Children’s voices are heard throughout this issue, from schools in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Tajikistan, while teachers from Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan are writing about their experiences in making schools more inclusive and child-friendly. This all highlights the progress that has been made throughout the region over the past few years. Reports from programmes on inclusive education in Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Lao, Pakistan and Timor-Leste encourages us to move forward and gives us ideas on how inclusive education can be implemented in countries where there are few resources. ...
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Glossary on Terminologies
The purpose of this Glossary is to help create a common understanding among key stakeholders on terminologies related to inclusive education, child-friendly schools and disabilities. In literature we will often find different terms used to describe similar conditions, while in other cases the same term might be used differently in different books. Therefore, with this Glossary we are attempting to create a deeper understanding among education planners, teacher educators, principles, head-teachers, teachers, special teachers, teacher students, as well as education activists of some of the main terminologies that are used to describe different disabilities. We have also included terminologies related to inclusive and child-friendly education. |
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EENET Asia Newsletter - Fifth Issue
Inclusive communities and inclusive schools fully recognise the equal rights of all children to quality education together with their siblings and peers in their local school. Such communities and schools recognise that inclusion benefits all children. They realise that diversity among students is a resource that benefits rather than hinders learning. Inclusion will therefore make communities and schools better for all: children, teachers and communities.
Welcome to the 5th issue of the EENET Asia Newsletter. For this issue we have invited another guest editor - John Morefield - who writes about the importance of school leadership when trying to improve the quality and inclusiveness of education. In many countries heads of schools are viewed exclusively as managers. The ideas of leadership, self-initiative or creativity are often not part of their job description or what others expect from them. John writes about leadership standards and professional development in Cambodia, but the relevance of what he describes applies to most countries in the region.
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UNESCO - Teacher Education Manual on HIV and AIDS Prevention and Response Philippine Pilot Version |
To facilitate a more comprehensive education sector response to HIV and AIDS UNESCO Jakarta and IDP Norway have developed a teacher education manual on HIV prevention and response. The manual was developed with support from key stakeholders in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines – including organisations of persons living with HIV as well as faith-based organisations. The manual has been adapted in all three countries, it has been translated into Bahasa Indonesia and piloted in three Indonesian universities; UNDANA in Kupang, UNP in Padang and UPI in Bandung. Teacher education and training institutions in Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Timor-Leste have committed to start using the Manual in their regular teacher education in training programmes starting mid 2008.
The Philippine Version was comprehensively adopted with input from the Philippine National Commission for UNESCO, UNAIDS, Department of Education, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Health, the Philippine National AIDS Council, Faith-based organisations [both Catholic and Muslim], Universities as well as PINOY Plus [an organisation of persons living with HIV] and other Philippine NGOs.
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South Asia Compendium - 2nd Edition
Convention and Laws Guaranteeing All Children the Equal Right to a Quality Education in an Inclusive Setting |
This Compendium is designed to help ensure that all children, whether infected or affected by HIV, are able to realise their right to education of good quality. Inclusive education is a developmental approach seeking to address the learning needs of all learners, with a specific focus on those who are vulnerable to marginalization and exclusion. Inclusive education is concerned with responding to the needs of all learners and therefore involves changes in content, approaches, structures and strategies. At the core of inclusive education is the right to education. The right to education is not only a right in itself but also a fundamental means to realize other human rights.
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from the Foreword by Sheldon Shaeffer
Director UNESCO Office Bangkok / Asia Pacific Bureu for Education |
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Malaysia Compendium
Convention and Laws Guaranteeing All Children the Equal Right to a Quality Education in an Inclusive Setting |
The goal of Education for All can only be achieved if authorities, schools and communities recognise their legal and moral responsibility towards all children. We hope that this Compendium will help all those involved in education to fulfil their responsibilities to offer all children free access to schools that will enable them to develop their full academic, social, emotional and physical potential.
The Compendium is available in English and Bahasa Melayu. Click here to go to our publications page.
from the Foreword by the
UNESCO National
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Philippines Compendium
Convention and Laws Guaranteeing All Children the Equal Right to a Quality Education in an Inclusive Setting |
This Compendium is a timey initiative and is an important tool in creating awareness among key government and non-government stakeholders about the true nature of the child from birth to 19 years and the child's legal rights to good parenting, quality education, state care and protection.
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from the Foreword by Ambassador Preciosa S. Soliven
Secreatry General of the UNESCO National
Commission of the Philippines
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Pakistan Compendium
Conventions, Agreements and Laws Guaranteeing All Children Equal Right to Quality Education in an Inclusive Setting |
This Compendium which is published in both English and Urdu has been developed as a tool in creating awareness among, and encouraging response from key stakeholders, to ensure equal access and right of ALL children to quality education, care and protection in an inclusive setting in Pakistan in future. Hard copies have been distributed to key stakeholders in Pakistan since end August and the full Compendium will be available online by the end of November 2007.
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Final Review
Phase II of the Project: Quality Improvement of Education for Children with Visual Impairment [2002 to 2005]
“This has been a successful and effective intervention which has had considerable impact, both directly and indirectly on special needs education in Indonesia, especially in the matter of inclusive education. The Project has been well managed and, despite the costs associated with expensive technical machinery, has been reasonably cost-effective. The End Review team felt that the Project had made an impact far beyond its size and apparent capacity. The Project has had a decisive effect on the status and quality of inclusive education in Indonesia and the present advanced state of thinking and practice in the country is largely due to the influence of the Project and its methods of operation. In particular, the building of local competence and working at the decentralized levels, have had an important impact on the field of special needs education. Delivery of equipment, Braille production, awareness activities, training, piloting and centre development have all been effective components of the Project.”
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Pakistan Project:
Education for All in an Inclusive Education
The project; Education for All in an Inclusive Setting was launched by the project partners - the Federal Directorate of Education, the Department of Education in Balochistan and IDP Norway - with a string of events in Islamabad, Quetta and Lahore from 19th to 27th February 2007. The Goal of the workshops and round-table discussions were; to find a common understand of the concepts of inclusion as well as child friendly education; identify challenges to reach Education for All in the education bureaucracy, communities, schools and universities, and; to find ways to successfully counter and remove these obstacles. More than 200 key government and non-government stakeholders - Ministers, Education Officials, University Lectures, Head Teachers, Teachers, Teacher Students as well as Education- and Rights Activists - participated during the events. The 3rd issue of EENET Asia Newsletter and the South Asia Compendium put in link were distributed to al the participants. |
