Implementing Inclusive Education: A Commonwealth Guide to Implementing Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Softcover

Rieser, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849290733 ISBN 13: 9781849290739

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2012

Synopsis

Inclusion in education is a process of enabling all children to learn and participate effectively within mainstream school systems, without segregation. It is about shifting the focus from altering disabled people to fit into society to transforming society, and the world, by changing attitudes, removing barriers and providing the right support.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires the development of an inclusive education system for all. This revised and expanded second edition of Implementing Inclusive Education examines the adoption of the Convention and provides examples, both through illustrated case studies and on the accompanying DVDs, of how inclusive education systems for all children have been established in pockets throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. The message is clear: it can be done. The task is now to implement
inclusive education worldwide.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Rieser is Director of Disability Equality in Education, a UK NGO that provides training, consultancy and resources to improve the position of disabled people in the education system. Richard is a disabled person and has been a teacher focusing on inclusion for thirty years. He was UK Disabled People’s Council representative at the Ad Hoc Committee meetings that formulated the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849290733
• ISBN 13: 9781849290739
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 348