UNESCO: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNESCO Banner

SANTIAGO

Inclusive Education

Back to Equity & Rights

Inclusive Education
  • © UNESCO / Tomás Munita
  • Student with Down syndrome at the Kinder class. San Alfonso, Chile

Inclusion is a movement intended to change educational systems so they can better respond to diversity in the classroom. It is an essential component of the right to equal opportunity education and closely linked to access, permanence, participation, and student achievement. Likewise, it places special emphasis on those who, for different reasons, have been excluded or risk marginalisation.

Furthering the development of inclusive schools and educational systems is everybody’s responsibility. Within this context, OREALC/UNESCO Santiago in collaboration with various regional stakeholders active in the field of education, is undertaking technical support initiatives, promoting inclusive policies and practices; elaborating and disseminating publications, evaluations, research and studies of particular interest in this area; promoting teacher training programmes, and the use of instruments designed for the collection of quantitative and qualitative data on the state of special needs education, and inclusive education in the region. These initiatives advance a change in attitudes, conceptions and practices of the various actors concerned with education, help to eliminate the barriers to learning, encourage student participation, and, most importantly, contribute to the development of an educational agenda that can be truly shared by all.

• Related documents and websites. More

Related news. More

 

News

inclusion-71.jpg
  • 24-01-2013
Grade ranking allows more than 4,000 Chilean students from educationally vulnerable homes to access university studies
More
ignacio-sanchez-71.jpg
  • 14-01-2013
“The use of grade ranking is a step towards inclusion”
More

Documents

jornadas-71.jpg
VII Jornadas de Cooperación Educativa con Iberoamérica Sobre Educación Especial e Inclusión Educativa. Educación secundaria
More
educacion-especial71.jpg
VI Jornadas de Cooperación Educativa con Iberoamerica sobre educación especial e inclusión educativa.
Estrategias para el desarrollo de escuelas y aulas inclusivas
More
siried71.jpg
Sistema Regional de Información Educativa de los Estudiantes con Discapacidad (SIRIED). Propuesta metodológica
More
innovemos-experiencias-educativas-segunda-oportunidad-71.jpg
Experiencias educativas de segunda oportunidad. Lecciones desde la práctica innovadora en América Latina
More
sirnee_71.jpg
Consulta a países de Latinoamérica sobre necesidades educativas especiales
More
convivencia_71.jpg
Convivencia Democrática, inclusión y cultura de paz: lecciones desde la práctica educativa en América Latina
More

Websites

inclusiva71.jpg
Modelo Inclusiva: evaluar para mejorar la respuesta de la escuela a la diversidad.
More
educacion_integradora_71.jpg
Sección de Educación inclusiva, UNESCO
More