21st century inclusive education for children with...

21st Century Inclusive Education

for Children with Disabilities

Datin Dr. Yasmin HussainDirector SEAMEO SEN

Global education Agenda

Inclusive Education

Inclusive education

• Inclusive education is an approach to education that supports and welcomes diversity amongst all learners. It is a concept of effective schools where every child has a place to study and teachers become facilitators of learning rather than providers of information (ICEVI: 2012).

Inclusive Education

• Inclusive education does not refer to the way to educate the child with disabilities but rather the way to educate every one. • "Inclusion" does not simply mean the placement of

students with disabilities in general education classes. • This process must incorporate fundamental change in the

way a school community supports and addresses the individual needs of each child.

Addressing barriers towards inclusion

Barriers to inclusion

Benefits of inclusive education in 21st century classroom

Benefits of inclusive education in 21st century classroom

• It also increased inclusion in future environments and provide greater opportunities for interactions. • It also increased school staff collaboration and parental

participation. • It would also resulted families to be more integrated into

community and thus greater understanding and acceptance of diversity in the society.

UN CRPD article 24

• The education of 21st century is not only centralized on technology engagement but also opportunity for all to receive quality education.• The article 24 of the United Nation Convention on the

Rights of Person with Disabilities relating to Education states that inclusive education system and life long learning education is the rights of person with disabilities. • Children with disabilities will not be excluded from free and

compulsory primary education and secondary education and they are to be given access to an inclusive, quality and free primary and secondary education.

IE learning paradigms

• Learner centered curriculum• Teachers as facilitators• Informal assessment• Opportunity for mixed abilities group activities• Inclusive education training for all teachers • Professional learning development: best practices in

Inclusive Education• Involving parents and community in schools and community awareness activity

IE learning paradigms

• Providing conducive environment to ensure inclusive education is created, supported and implemented for all children in the classes/schools

Malaysia

• The current trend in Malaysia is moving towards holistic inclusive education from integrated special education practice in all primary and secondary schools.• Inclusive Education curriculum is embedded in the pre-service teacher training courses.• Malaysia Education blue print 2015-2025 specifically addressed Inclusive Education in Initiative #34, “ to provide equal access for quality education of international standard for students with Special Needs”.

Inclusive education Practice: Malaysia

• In Malaysia, inclusive education is now the main education agenda. • Efforts have been doubled by the Ministry of Education to

enhance capacity buildings for Special Education Teachers and mainstream teachers to receive and teach CWD in normal classroom.• Current trend is moving towards holistic inclusive

incorporating all stakeholders.

Inclusive Education Practice: Malaysia

• Currently the MOE of Malaysia is intensifying the efforts to structure a more holistic IE that places emphasis to develop increased awareness on the participation of parents and communities to provide a responsive environment for CWD. • The current integrated special education program will be

utilized to engage and integrate CWD and children in the mainstream in activities and subjects that can promote acceptance and understanding for all children to accept and respect everyone in schools communities.

Malaysia : Inclusive Education

Types of programs

• Special Education Schools• Integrated Special Education Program• Inclusive Education Program

Figures and facts: Enrolment of SEN children in the Inclusive Education program

Year No of SEN children

Sen children in the Inclusive Education Program

Percentage %

2013 56, 406 5, 376 9.62014 58, 006 10,700 18.442015 72, 715 16, 899 23,242016 76,166 23, 048 30.26

Source: Minit Mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Pendidikan di bawah majlis OKU Bil1/2017

Figures and facts: Enrolment of SEN children in Special Education Integrated Program in the Inclusive Education program 2016

Year No of SEN children in Inclusive Education Program

Percentage %

2016 59, 505 14.54


Target aimed for inclusive education program in 2017


Inclusive education practice: Singapore

• Countries like Singapore and Brunei Darussalam are offering and implementing inclusive education with strong support including its policies, manpower and also education system that are friendly for children with disabilities. • In Singapore CWD are given the assistance and opportunity

to study in the mainstream classes and also be given the opportunities to develop job skills needed for them to obtain and to stay in employment.

Inclusive education practice: Brunei Darussalam

• In Brunei Darussalam, CWD are also studying and learning in mainstream school with the support of their homeroom teachers. • They are also provided with technical and vocational skills

to prepare them for independent living.

Inclusive Education Practice: Thailand

• In Thailand, CWD are also accepted and in mainstream classes with support and guidance from their teachers who received skills and training from special education teachers.• The children are prepared and taught to manage

themselves before they can be placed in mainstream classes.•

Inclusive Education Practice: Thailand

• Parent supports are also given and Special Education teachers provide information and knowledge for the parents to care and manage their CWD at homes. • CWD are also given life skills to lead independent life and

employment opportunities that are suited to the skills that they learned in schools.

Inclusive Education Practice: Vietnam

• CWD are prepared and given intervention before they can be placed in mainstream schools and also be given job skills so that they are able to earn their own living.

Inclusive Education Practice: Lao PDR, Myanmar, Cambodia and Timor Leste

• In countries like Lao PDR, Myanmar, Cambodia and Timor Leste inclusive education have been implemented by placing CWD especially those who are blind and deaf in the mainstream classes. • These countries are still developing and in dire need of

financial, man power and capacity to enhance the teachers’ skills and knowledge in specialized disabilities and also to teach inclusive classroom.

Inclusive Education Practice: Lao PDR, Myanmar, Cambodia and Timor Leste

• Much efforts have been done to ensure that CWD are included in the education system. • Inclusive education is the main education system available

for CWD in these countries as these countries are still developing and face a lot of challenges to train teachers to be specialists in special education.

Inclusive Education Practice: Phillipines

• The Department of Education of the Philippines has also restructured their education system from fully segregating the Special education towards Inclusive Education. • The Department is currently conducting IE courses for both

special education and mainstream teachers to support their CWD in the normal classroom

21st century education: The Dynamics

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SEAMEO SEN initiative for Inclusive Education in the 21st Century

• SEAMEO SEN as the regional training and research center, is currently working collaboratively with local and international agencies to provide IE training for Special Education teachers in the region. • The training contents also covers Special Education subjects

and best practices for Special Education teachers whom later will share these training contents with their teachers of Special Education and those who are in the mainstream classes. • The upcoming ICSE 2017 also gives the opportunity for

teachers and educators to share their research and findings conducted in IE.

Inclusive Education Practice comes in varied forms and functions.Each country has its own practices.The versions of IE practice are totally unique by every country and highly dependence on what works best for each Ministry.

But what really matters is……

The ultimate aim:

• Each child is given the access, equity and engagement to work and study together with their peers in the same classroom and be given acceptance by all his classmates and teachers.

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