Inclusive Education in Action (IEA) is a project being conducted jointly by UNESCO and the European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education. The project aims to provide a resource for policy makers to help them to design and implement policies for inclusion.

The starting point for the project is the UNESCO ‘Policy Guidelines on Inclusion in Education’. The Policy Guidelines consider how the ‘policy cycle’ for inclusive education can be supported by presenting areas of policy concerns; policy questions; gaps to be resolved and suggested actions. The guidelines are available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Russian from the UNESCO website .

The goal of the Inclusive Education in Action (IEA) project is to bridge the ‘policy to practice gap’ by providing examples that clearly illustrate the actions described in the guidelines and show how these policy actions can be effectively put into practice bearing in mind national and local realities and challenges.

The Policy Guidelines outline 51 suggested actions to improve policy and practice in inclusive education and the IEA project, in its 2009-2010 pilot phase will focus on 15 of these under the broad themes of inclusive policy development; inclusion through early childhood care and education; inclusive curricula; teachers and teacher education and resources and legislation to support inclusion.

The project will provide an accessible web-based resource, which will allow users to search for examples in particular areas of policy and practice and also support feedback and discussion on the examples.

We would now like to invite you to send us any relevant examples you may have for consideration within the IEA project.

The IEA Request for Examples document includes some more information on the project as well as a template form for you to use in sending us your information.

Please disseminate this information to any colleagues who you feel may be able to contribute examples to the project.

All contributions will be fully acknowledged and this is a good opportunity to gain recognition for and facilitate interactions around initiatives from a worldwide network with potential to add value to your work through feedback and discussion with colleagues.

Last modified May 27, 2010

Más información: http://www.european-agency.org/news/call-for-inclusive-education-examples

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The policy guidelines are designed to reinforce the message from UN Special Rapporteur Dr Bengt Lindqvist, “all children and young people of the world, with their individual strengths and weaknesses, with their hopes and expectations, have the right to education. It is not our education systems that have a right to a certain type of child. Therefore, it is the school system of a country that must be adjusted to meet the needs of all its children”.

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They act as a resource for policy makers, teachers and learners, community leaders and members of civil society to improve and develop the inclusive aspect of schools and education systems. 

The guidelines also form the basis of the project “Inclusion in Action” that will, throughout 2010, collect and disseminate good practices from all over the world in order to support efforts towards schools for all. 

Related Links

Policy Guidelines on Inclusion in Education (en español):

 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/Ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=177849&set=4A9F89E7_2_250&gp=1&ll=1 

UNESCO’s work in Inclusive Education:   http://www.unesco.org/en/inclusive-education/