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#OneSmallThing - Day 5 (Friday 1 December): Education

School's in session, and it's time to learn about inclusive education!

"Every learner matters and matters equally"

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Our mission is to create a world where all people living with disability get a fair go at everything life has to offer. If we don't get it right at a school setting we can't expect to get it right throughout the rest of life.

If kids grow up studying and playing alongside kids who live with disability, then it's no big leap later in life to work alongside colleagues who live with disability, or to hire and be hired by people living with disability.

The Inclusive School Communities Project is a project aimed at equipping schools with the knowledge and experience they need to provide an inclusive education to all their students.

What is inclusive education?

Inclusive education means that children and young people from ALL social, cultural, community and family backgrounds, and of all identities and all abilities are able to:

Attend and be welcomed by their local school
Access and participate fully in a high-quality education
Learn and engage in the same curriculum and all other aspects of school life alongside similarly-aged peers
Learn in a safe and supportive environment free from bullying, harassment or discrimination and
Achieve academically and socially with support and adjustments that are tailored to meet the individual strengths and needs of every student.

Click here to read more about inclusive education.

We've covered inclusion, but what is exclusion, segregation and integration?

Exclusion occurs when students are directly or indirectly prevented from or denied access to education in any form.
Segregation occurs when the education of students with disabilities is provided in separate environments designed or used to respond to a particular or various impairments, in isolation from students without disabilities.
Integration is a process of placing persons with disabilities in existing mainstream educational institutions, as long as the former can adjust to the standardized requirements of such institutions.

For a visual representation of this, please see the graphic below.

A graphic showing the difference between inclusion, exclusion, segregation and integration

Got #OneSmallThing you'd like to share on any of the topics above? We'd love to hear from you!

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