Education for All The Six Dakar Goals

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Education for AllThe Six Dakar Goals

• -expanding and improving comprehensive early
  childhood care and education
• -ensuring that by 2015 all children have access
  to compulsory education
• -equitable access to appropriate learning for all
  young and adults
• -achieving a 50 improvement in levels of adult
  literacy by 2015
• -eliminating gender disparities by 2005 and
  achieving gender equality by 2015
• -improving the quality of education especially in
  literacy, numeracy and essential life skills

ED/BAS/IQE Kenneth Eklindh
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77 million children still not in
school(presently 72 million)

• Half in sub-Saharan Africa
• One-third in India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and
  Ethiopia
• Drop of 20 million since 1999, mainly in South
  Asia
• 60 never enroll, 31 enroll late, 9 enroll but
  drop out

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The right to education for all children is
universal

• Enshrined in
• The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
• The World Declaration for Education for All
  (1990)
• The Standard Rules on the Equalisation of
  Opportunities for Persons with Disability (1993)
• The Dakar Framework for Action (2000)
• The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action
  (1994)
• The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
  Disabilities (came into force in May 2008)

ED/BAS/IQE Kenneth Eklindh
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All children and young people of the world, with
their individual strengths and weaknesses, with
their hopes and expectations, have the right to
education. It is not our education system that
have a right to a certain type of
children.Therefore, it is the school system of a
country that must be adjusted to meet the needs
of all its children (B. Lindqvist former UN
rapporteur on UN Standard rules)
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AN INCLUSIVE SCHOOL IS FOR EVERYBODY

• Working for full participation, community and
  equality through
• flexibility
• variations in methods
• needs orientation
• focus on strong sides
• respect for differences

ED/BAS/IQE Kenneth Eklindh
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OBSTACLES TO INCLUSION

• Attitudes
• Lack of knowledge
• Segregation
• Wrong expectations
• Wrong ways of working
• No access to the curriculum
• Lack of clear policy

ED/BAS/IQE Kenneth Eklindh
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EDUCATION

• Shift in approach
• Paradigm shift on Education needed
• The School System must be changed
• Holistic approach to Education
• Work through Change Agents

ED/BAS/IQE Kenneth Eklindh
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To meet the EFA targets, 8 billion
(US) is needed (Figures from 2002)

• 8 billion is
• four days worth of global military spending
• half of what is spent on toys in the USA every
  year
• less than Europeans spend on computer games or
  mineral water
• less than 0,1 of gross national product

• The total amount spent internationally to deal
  with the millennium bug scare was roughly twice
  the debt owed by the worlds poorest countries

ED/BAS/IQE Kenneth Eklindh
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With a little help from my friends
ED/BAS/IQE Kenneth Eklindh
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Activities in 2008 and 2009

• Preparatory regional meetings preparing Road maps
  to Inclusion
• ICE Inclusion the way of the future
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with
  Disabilities UN to facilitate
• DVD on article 24
• GPDD (Global Partnership for Disability and
  Development)
• EFA Flagship on Disabilities (www.inclusionflagshi
  p.net)
• Good practicies

ED/BAS/IQE Kenneth Eklindh