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Launch: GEM 2020 Latin America and the Caribbean Report – Inclusion and Education

Date: 5 November 2020, 3.30pm (Paris).

Platform: Zoom.

Register online.

 

The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report will launch a regional report on inclusion and education in Latin America and the Caribbean on 5 November 2020.

The regional report follows the global edition – the 2020 GEM Report – which was released in June 2020. Both reports draw on analyses of six elements: laws and policies; governance and finance; curricula and learning materials; teachers and support personnel; schools; and communities, parents and students and on the impact of school closures caused by Covid-19 on learning.

This is the second in a series of regional reports being produced by the GEM Report, following a report on migration and displacement in the Arab States produced in November 2019. The third regional report will cover inclusion and education in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, due for release in December 2020.

Register for the Latin America and the Caribbean Report launch.

New ECDE document on disability-inclusive responses, lessons and policy considerations from Southern Africa

Getting it Right. Inclusive Early Childhood Development and Education Rights. Disability-inclusive responses, lessons and policy considerations from Southern Africa has been published by Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA).

It includes sections on:

  • Addressing attitudes to disability
  • Improving inclusive practices in early childhood development and education and promoting early identification and intervention
  • Influencing inclusive early childhood development and education policy and systems

Chapters cover experiences from: Malawi, eSwatini (Swaziland), Zambia, Zimbabwe

Download in PDF format.

 

INEE 20th Anniversary Event (online)

Date: Monday, 9 November 2020. 8:30am-10:45am ET (New York).

Registration details coming soon

The online anniversary event for Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) will be an opportunity to look back over 20 years of INEE and to reflect on the achievements and challenges in the field of education in emergencies (EiE). The virtual event will be an opportunity to

  • hear from children, young people, and teachers on why education is important
  • share stories from INEE members, past and present
  • learn about the key achievements and challenges in the EiE sector
  • come together in celebration.

There will be simultaneous translation in Arabic, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, and closed captioning in English. Registration details are coming soon.

Note: this is not an EENET event. Please contact the organisers with all queries.

KAPTalks with Toyin Aderemi on leaving no one behind in education

Date: 20 November 2020, 15:00 GMT.

Platform: Zoom.

Hosted by: Handicap International and the University of Luxembourg.

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1 in 20 children under 14 years old has a disability worldwide. Children with disabilities have an equal right to an inclusive, quality and free primary and secondary education. However, education systems and services worldwide are failing to meet this right, both in terms of access and quality of education. Not only children with disabilities have lower rates of enrolment in education, but also higher dropout rates, with poor levels of attendance, progression and learning.

This lecture will shed light on the educational situation of children with disabilities in low and middle income countries, highlighting how the interaction of multiple discriminatory factors (like gender and disability) results in increased exclusion.

Real-time captioning service will be available: as speakers and participants will take the floor, a written text will appear on video, in order to break down communication barriers that exist for people who are deaf, hard of hearing or whose native language is not English.

Note: this is not an EENET event. Please contact the organisers with all queries.

Book review: Hanging On – A Special Educator’s journey into Inclusive Education

Author: Kanwal Singh.

Date: 2020.

 

Usually we recommend and share reading materials that are available free of charge. We’re making an exception for this book, because it’s too good not to share, and it’s available at a low price.

It can be purchased online from Amazon India, price 299 INR (approximately £3 GBP) . If you are not able to order via this method, contact EENET and we’ll link you up with the author to find out about alternative purchase options.

What EENET team members have said about the book:

“I read the book in one go immediately on the day I received it. I enjoyed reading it. It depicts the dilemma that teachers face in implementing inclusive education. It should be distributed to the many inclusive education project managers in UN agencies, bilateral contractors and international NGOs. It helps project managers that do not have a background as a teacher to understand the challenges that teachers face in implementing inclusion.

The non-technical language and fresh language makes the book a very welcome change to reading reports or manuals. I encourage project managers to get their hands on “Hanging On”.

Alexander Hauschild

Disability, Inclusion and Human Rights Consultant (and EENET website manager), Jakarta, Indonesia

“It’s been a totally crazy year, which why it took me so long to finally get round to reading Kanwal Singh’s book. But once I started, I read it cover to cover in about 2 hours. I couldn’t put it down.

It was fun, easy, and exciting to read. Why exciting? Because it’s very rare to find a piece of writing that is so honest, so reflective, so self-critical – and which really demands that the reader behaves in the same way.

Inclusive education is a wonderful concept, but one which for many years has been at risk of getting lost in a sea of mediocre, donor-pleasing, one-off projects that seem oblivious to the education revolution that’s really required. Kanwal’s book gives us a light-hearted yet powerful reminder of the changes needed. Read it! And if it makes you feel uncomfortable because it challenges the way you have been working, don’t feel offended. Stop, reflect, and change!”

Ingrid Lewis

Managing Director, EENET

** Deadline expired ** Coordinateur de programme et campagne education multi-acteur – Senegal

Figure recherchée : Coordinateur de programme et campagne éducation multi-acteur.

Destination : Sénégal.

Lieux de travail : Dakar avec mission à Sedhiou, Kolda, Kaolack et Kaffrine.

Salaire : en fonction de l’expérience.

Durée du contrat : 12 mois (renouvelable).

Départ : Novembre-Décembre 2020.

 

Les candidatures doivent être envoyées avant le 30 Octobre 2020.

 

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** Deadline Expired ** Senior Consultant – Inclusive Education

Application deadline: 1 November 2020.

Read the full application details.

Oxford Policy Management’s education portfolio is recruiting a talented and dynamic senior consultant to lead its work in the area of inclusive education. This role is based in either Oxford, Islamabad or Delhi on a permanent basis.

The Senior Consultant will have several strands of responsibilities which will include developing and leading the inclusive education technical area; setting its strategic technical direction and associated budget; recruiting, managing and achieving objectives for project impact and financial viability; project acquisition; learning, influencing, and team building; and maintaining an active personal practice of high level consulting engagements.

Specialisms will include several, if not all, of following areas: girls’ education; special needs education; education in emergencies; access to quality education; out-of-school children.

** Deadline expired ** Senior Policy Adviser: Social Inclusion and Inclusive Education – Sightsavers

Application deadline: 11 October 2020.

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Sightsavers is looking for a Senior Policy Adviser to lead its policy influencing on social inclusion and inclusive education as part of the Policy and Global Advocacy Directorate. The post-holder will also be responsible for managing two Policy Officers (Social Inclusion and Inclusive Education respectively). The role is normally based in Haywards Heath, West Sussex but is anticipated to be home-based for the foreseeable future.

 

Webinar launch of ‘The Bedrock of Inclusion’, 5 October 2020

Date: Monday 5 October 2020 – World Teachers’ Day.

Time: 12:00 GMT.

To celebrate World Teachers’ Day, ActoinAid, Light for the World and Education International invite you to take part in an interactive webinar to launch a new multi-country study – The Bedrock of Inclusion – which outlines why investing in teachers and education support personnel is critical to delivering inclusive education an achieving SDG4. The study presents findings from Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and Tanzania.

Register online.