Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities – Are We Making Progress?
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Inclusive education for persons with disabilities – Are we making progress? Background paper prepared for the International Forum on inclusion and equity in education – Every learner matters, Cali, Colombia 11–13 September 2019 This document was prepared by Leonard Cheshire as background information to the International Forum on inclusion and equity in education (Cali, Colombia, 11-13 September 2019). The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the author(s) and should not be attributed to UNESCO. Acknowledgements The paper ‘Inclusive education for persons The team is immensely grateful for the valuable with disabilities – Are we making progress?’ contributions received from experts who wrote has been developed as a background detailed inputs for this paper. In particular, Prof. paper for the UNESCO International Forum Nidhi Singal (Professor in Education, University on inclusion and equity in education of Cambridge), Ruchi Kulbir Singh (Disability- – Every learner matters, being held in Inclusive Education Consultant, World Bank), Cali, Colombia from 11-13 September Dr Sai Väyrynen (Counsellor, Education, 2019. The Forum is being organised in Embassy of Finland in Addis Ababa and Senior commemoration of the 25th anniversary Lecturer, University of Helsinki, Finland), Sian of the passing of the Salamanca Statement Tesni (CBM, IDDC), Julia McGeown and Sandrine and Framework for Action. Bohan Jacquot (Humanity and Inclusion, IDDC), The paper has been prepared as a knowledge Dr Humberto Javier Rodríguez Hernández product by a team led by Dr Ola Abu Alghaib (Director, Escuela Normal de Especialización (Director, Global Influencing and Research, Humberto Ramos Lozano, Mexico) and Kate Leonard Cheshire), Marie Schoeman Lapham and Dragana Sretenov (Open Society (Programmes Technical Lead: Inclusive Foundations).
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