scholarly journals Barriers to Effective, Equitable and Quality Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 805-832
Author(s):  
Alison MacKenzie ◽  
Christine Bower ◽  
Mohammed Owaineh

Abstract The Israeli occupation has had a considerable negative impact on the lives of Palestinians, such that achieving an effective, equitable, quality education for all children is far from being realised. Palestinian children are not only adversely affected by the occupation, but also by an educational system that fails fully and systematically to accord them their rights. Using rights-based participatory methods informed by human rights protocols, we explored the experiences of children with disabilities’ inclusion in schools. Our findings show that there is continuing failure to understand or implement the provisions of the uncrc or uncrpd, and that these children are systematically excluded or marginalised from education. We suggest that children’s rights to educational inclusion can be achieved by means of a whole system, whole educational and whole person approach, along with a consideration of a rights-based policy framework.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebba Ossiannilsson

Quality education for all is both a human right based on social justice and liberation and a force for sustainable development and peace. The goal of education for all is stated in United Nations UNESCO Sustainability Goal 4, 2030 Agenda, which aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This chapter is based on a systematic literature review. In this chapter, the focus is on global initiatives in education as a global common. The findings support that knowledge is a universal entity constructed by individuals, and it belongs to anyone anywhere and at any time. The year 2012 was dubbed the Year of the MOOC, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 marked another milestone. MOOCs have dramatically changed the way people learn, and how to access knowledge. MOOCs offer an affordable, flexible way to learn new skills, advance a career, and deliver quality educational experiences. MOOCs have the potential to help individuals enjoy learning and acquire knowledge in a variety of ways. In the changing learning landscapes and the futures of learning, MOOCs can play a variety of roles, such as stand-alone courses in informal and non-formal learning and modules integrated into formal education. It is time to develop and offer more agile, seamless, rhizomatic learning opportunities that promote human rights equity and liberation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 05-23
Author(s):  
Solange Lucas Ribeiro ◽  
Juliana Oliveira dos Santos

As políticas inclusivas apontam avanços no direito à escolarização de alunos, contemplando a sua diversidade. Dessa forma, pessoas com deficiência, transtorno do espectro autista, altas habilidades e outras singularidades, vem ocupando espaços nas escolas. Contudo, há muito a ser percorrido para que a inclusão se efetive, sendo um dos pilares, a mediação pedagógica, a partir da escuta sensível, que permite atender às necessidades e especificidades dos alunos. O presente artigo intenciona analisar e problematizar as práticas docentes e os recursos didáticos, utilizados no ensino de Geografia, com ênfase na categoria Lugar e na cartografia tátil. A temática é relevante, pois há uma imagem estereotipada da geografia escolar, considerada como uma disciplina mnemônica, difícil, que urge ser desconstruída, sobretudo para alunos com deficiência, que vivenciam a chamada “inclusão marginal”. O texto é produto de uma pesquisa colaborativa, com desenvolvimento de oficinas, a partir de dados coletados em entrevistas, grupos focais e questionários.  Nos achados da pesquisa, assume destaque a subtração do direito à educação, pela falta de equidade de oportunidades e de recursos táteis não usados pela grande maioria dos professores. Nesse sentido, uma educação de qualidade, para todos, é um desafio necessário e urgente que a sociedade deve assegurar. Palavras-chave Ensino de geografia, Diversidade, Inclusão, Cartografia tátil.   TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF DIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION Abstract Inclusive policies point to advances in the right to schooling for students, taking into account their diversity. Thus, people with disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, high skills and other singularities, have been occupying spaces in schools. However, there is much to be done for inclusion to become effective, one of the pillars being pedagogical mediation, based on sensitive listening, which allows meeting the needs and specificities of students. This article intends to analyze and problematize teaching practices and didactic resources, used in the teaching of Geography, with emphasis on the category Place and tactile cartography. The theme is relevant, as there is a stereotyped image of school geography, considered as a mnemonic, difficult discipline, which urgently needs to be deconstructed, especially for students with disabilities, who experience the so-called “marginal inclusion”. The text is the product of collaborative research, with the development of workshops, based on data collected in interviews, focus groups and questionnaires. In the research findings, the subtraction of the right to education is highlighted, due to the lack of equity in opportunities and tactile resources not used by the vast majority of teachers. In this sense, quality education for all is a necessary and urgent challenge that society must ensure. Keywords Geography teaching, Diversity, Inclusion, Tactile cartography.


2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Leire Darretxe Urrutxi ◽  
María Alvarez Rementería ◽  
Israel Alonso Saez ◽  
Nekane Beloki Arizti

This theoretical article addresses the question of the commitment of international educational policy to an inclusive and equitable quality education for all people as a fundamental right. The implemented methodology was a review of publications from international organizations and scientific articles from different reference databases, such as Latindex, Erih and Dialnet, between the years 2010-2020. The selected articles and reports have been categorized by different topics that provided understanding to the field of inclusive education, which has allowed the analysis and the results that are presented hereunder. Firstly, the beginnings and development of Inclusive Education are described, collecting the main milestones related to education as a right and placing special emphasis on those milestones of greatest relevance. Subsequently, the different and complementary perspectives regarding inclusive education have been synthetized and analysed, arguing that there are different causes that foster the development of this right. Thus, an attempt is made to delimit the meaning of inclusion, educational inclusion and/or inclusive education, reaching consensus or agreements endorsed by the literature. Conclusions highlight that inclusive education has to be based on equity and the importance of educational policies being committed to this challenge of guaranteeing an inclusive and equitable education for all people.


2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7

This section comprises JPS summaries and links to international, Arab, Israeli, and U.S. documents and source materials from the quarter spanning 16 May-15 November 2017. Fifty years of Israeli occupation was the focus of reports by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Oxfam that documented the ongoing human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories. Other notable documents include Israeli NGO Gisha and UNSCO reports on the ten-year Gaza siege, Al Jazeera's interactive timeline of the Nakba, and an exchange of letters between the ACLU and U.S. senators on anti-BDS legislation.


2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geeta Kingdon ◽  
Michelle Riboud

Author(s):  
Lyudmyla Bogachova ◽  
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Tetiana Herhulenko ◽  

In the article, within the framework of the general exploration of human rights was made an attempt to substantiate the importance of social rights as a separate category of rights that belongs to the «second generation» of human rights and needs analysis within the state and legal reality. Attention was paid to the historical aspect of the development of social rights. The events, that inevitably influenced the emergence, development and ideological justification of the need for recognition of social rights are analyzed, the causal links involved in their formation are also indicated. In publication the connection of social rights with the concept of the welfare state is revealed, the main purpose of this state is to promote the realization of these rights. The fundamental features of this form of organization of government and society make it possible to evaluate the great dependence of the realization of social rights on socially oriented policy and economy of the country. For a deep understanding of the essence and ideas embedded in the content of social rights, the features and characteristics of this category of rights are studied. Attention is also paid to the different approaches to the concept of social rights expressed by researchers in this issue. The sources in which social human rights are legally fixed are considered (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Social Charter, the Constitution of Ukraine, the German Social Code). Also there is a comparative analysis of the enshrinement of these rights in courses mentioned above. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of social rights listed in the German Social Code, as well as to the content of the agreement between Ukraine and Germany about cooperation in the social sphere. Great attention in the publication is paid to the studying of events in Ukraine that hinder the realization of social rights. The coronavirus pandemic and military events in the East of the country have negative impact on the implementation of social rights. The statistical data confirming the violation of the housing rights and medical care at present are given. Conclusion is formulated about the need of analyzing social rights as a specialized group of human rights, which have passed a significant historical path of formation and have unique characteristics and features.


Author(s):  
Jens Seeberg

Jens Seeberg: Stigma Statistics: Agendas in the Making in Danish AIDS Policy This article explores a number of paradoxes and assumptions in the public debate on AIDS in Denmark. They form part of a recurrent attack on the Danish ‘soft line’ AIDS policy that maintains anonymity and voluntary HIV-testing. One central issue in recent years has been obligatory testing of asylum seekers from high risk areas as a precondition for considering the asylum request. Especially asylum seekers from African countries are pointed out as constituting a major threat to the native Danish population in terms of spread of HIV. This is shown to rest on a misreading of the official statistics, repeated as often as the statistics themselves. The assumption that there is a basic clash between the human rights of the HIV-infected person and the population in general is discussed. This conceived clash rests on the assumption that restrictions of the human rights of the HIV-infected person will provide efficient protection for the noninfected majority. The potential counterproductive effects of this line of thought are discussed. Contact tracing is sometimes considered as an effective preventive measure. Part of the critique of the present AIDS policy States that contact tracing is virtually non-existing and that this has a major negative impact on the preventive efforts. It is argued that while the impact of contact tracing in itself may be rather limited, the lack of contact tracing may be seen as a symptom of insufficient counselling. While obligatory HIV testing may never be practiced in Denmark, its recurrent appearance on the agenda serves to provoke a defensive stand among AIDS policy makers. It is argued that this debate has hitherto had the effect of keeping the needs of HIV-infected people - and especially HIV-infected immigrants — away from public debate and serious concern.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (Especial 2) ◽  
pp. 08-14
Author(s):  
Marcela Corrêa Tinti

Faced of the expectations that a contemporary idea is made, quality education for all levels of education, especially with regard to school inclusion. For this reason, the article is being discussed for the purpose of elucidating on the subject of education. Of qualitative character, analysis the assumptions that substantiate of development of students did the students to students with Deafness. Abstract: The Required Requirements for Ins Graph the students of the higher students of the students are empathizing the perpassam of the performer of Education Special and Curricular Adaptation. However, since inclusive practices can be applied in the form of homogeneous ones, since they can promote the differentiation of differences, we can propose the development of the learning of all.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Schelzig ◽  
Kirsty Newman

Children with disabilities suffer disproportionately from the learning crisis. Although they represent only about 1.5% to 5% of the child population, they comprise more than half of out-of-school children globally. Inspired by a commitment that every child has the right to quality education, a growing global drive for inclusive education promotes an education system where children with disabilities receive an appropriate and high-quality education that is delivered alongside their peers. The global commitment to inclusive education is captured in the Sustainable Development Goal 4—ensuring inclusive and equitable education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. This paper explores inclusive education for children with disabilities in Mongolia’s mainstream education system, based on a 2019 survey of more than 5,000 households; interviews with teachers, school administrators, education ministry officials, and social workers; and visits to schools and kindergartens in four provinces and one district of the capital city. Mongolia has developed a strong legal and policy framework for inclusive education aligned with international best practice, but implementation and capacity are lagging. This is illustrated using four indicators of inclusive education: inclusive culture, inclusive policies, inclusive practices, and inclusive physical environments. The conclusion presents a matrix of recommendations for government and education sector development partners.


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