The Conference, entitled “Living and Learning for a Viable Future: The Power of Adult Learning” will provide an important platform for policy dialogue and advocacy on adult learning and non-formal education at the global level.

The objectives are:

• to advance the recognition of adult learning and education as an important element and factor contributing to lifelong learning;
• to use additional recognition to help enhance current international education and development agendas;
• to renew political momentum and commitment; and
• to develop the tools for implementation in order to move from rhetoric to action.

The Conference will be hosted by the Government of Brazil in December 2009. It will bring together representatives of UNESCO Member States, United Nations agencies, multi- and bi-lateral cooperation agencies, organisations from civil society, the private sector and learners from all regions of the world.

For more information:

• CONTINEA VI website
• Programme
• Working and Information Documents
• Registration

What are the regional perspectives on social and educational inclusion? What is the impact that a broadened view of inclusive education can have in the process of school and curricular change?   What investments, resources and tools are needed for monitoring and assessing inclusive education policies and programmes?

These are some of the main topics that will be discussed during the occasion of the Regional Meeting “Implementation of Inclusive Education Policies in Latin America: Progress and Pending Challenges”, being organized on 18-20 November 2009 in Santiago, Chile. This event will also serve to discuss the implementation of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities across the region.

The meeting is organized by UNESCO through its Education Sector in Paris, the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC) and the International Bureau of Education (IBE), in partnership with the “Education for All (EFA) Flagship on the Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities: Towards Inclusion”.

For more information:

• Provisional programme of the Meeting (PDF, 50 KB), in Spanish (PDF, 50 KB)
• La Educación Inclusiva, perspectiva internacional y retos de futuro, by R. Opertti (PDF, 130 KB, in Spanish)
• Inclusive education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Analysis of the 2008 series of National Reports, by M. Amadio (PDF, 110 KB, in Spanish)

See also:

• Website of OREALC
• IBE website (inclusive education)
• Website of the EFA Flagship

How can we remove the barriers that exclude disabled children from free and compulsory primary and junior secondary education? This question will be discussed at the Sub-regional Workshop on the Provision of Inclusive Quality Education for Children with Disabilities in Jakarta.

The Workshop builds upon the 48th International Conference on Education (ICE) of November 2008. The ICE concluded by calling upon countries “to adopt an inclusive education approach in the design, implementation, monitoring and assessment of educational policies as a way to further accelerate the attainment of the Education For All (EFA) goals, as well as to contribute to building more inclusive societies”.

The Jakarta Workshop aims to assist the countries in improving the schooling of children with disabilities by:

• removing  the barriers that exclude disabled children from free and compulsory primary and junior secondary education, and
• providing inclusive primary and junior secondary education systems that take into account the varied needs of disabled children.

In preparation for the Workshop, the participating countries (Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Timor-Leste) have each prepared a national report, which will be shared and discussed with senior ministerial officials and international experts in inclusive education. The national reports not only consist of in-depth situational analyses on the provision of inclusive quality education for disabled children at the primary and junior secondary levels, but will also serve as a tool to stimulate feasible ideas for improving the current situation. The Workshop will lead to practical recommendations, tailor-made to address priority objectives as well as interventions to be adopted and implemented by the countries.

This Workshop is co-organized by the IBE and the UNESCO Office in Jakarta.

For more information:

• Agenda (in english only)
• EFA and Inclusive Education Powerpoint (PDF, 400KB. Available in English only)

As a follow-up activity to the 48th ICE, this cross national symposium focused on teacher education and development for the effective implementation of inclusive education. The symposium used the ICE Conclusions and Recommendations on this topic as the basis for discussion.

Some of the questions that were explored included:

• What are the implications of the UNESCO recommendations for those who prepare teachers? 
• What does it mean to ‘train teachers by equipping them with the appropriate skills and materials to teach diverse student populations’?
• Are there common meanings that transcend the boundaries of nation states, and the strictures of the rich and poor?

Colleagues with expertise in inclusive education and/or teacher education addressed aspects of the six ICE recommendations specific to teacher education and served to stimulate discussions about how to take ideas and put them into practice.

The Symposium was organised by the School of Education of the University of Aberdeen.

For more information:

• Programme
• Article “Inclusive education and teacher education: Moving the EFA agenda forward”
• University of Aberdeen – School of Education website

The International Bureau of Education (IBE) developed the film for teachers, teacher trainers, future teachers and programme developers.

The film can also be interesting for other professionals working in education. Ideally, teachers could visit other schools to see practical teaching situations. As it is not possible on a large scale for technical or financial reasons, this documentary gives an easy access to concrete examples.

The situations illustrate concretely how teachers address HIV and AIDS education in the classroom through different lessons. The DVD is composed of 7 modules showing real teaching situations in relation with HIV and AIDS education. The sequences have been shot in classrooms of Cameroon with learners aged between 6 and 17 years old. The situations are particularly adapted to the African context but will also be useful in other cultural environments.

Parents also speak to reflect the worries of the community. An interview of Mrs Haman Adama, Ministry of Basic Education of Cameroon from 2004 to 2009, gives the official position and underlines the importance of integrating HIV and AIDS education in official curricula.

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Fifteen Years have passed since The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action was adopted by the World Conference on Special Needs Education: Access and Quality (Salamanca, Spain, 10 June 1994).

As the Convention on the Rights of Person’s with Disabilities comes into effect, it is time to assess the progress made and set the agenda for renewed action in the years ahead.

The objectives of the conference include:

• Sharing information on the current status of Inclusive Education globally;
• Sharing good practices and successful strategies to help to implement of quality inclusive education;
• Developing networks and participation between education leaders from different countries so they can work together in promoting inclusive education.

The conference is organised by Inclusion International and Inclusion Europe, and co-sponsored by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, the Institute on Community Integration (INICO), the ONCE Foundation and the Spanish Confederation of Organisations in Favour of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (FEAPS).

For more information:

• General information
• Programme
• Presentation on Inclusive Education by the IBE (in Spanish, PDF)

The main objective of this international seminar in Frankfurt will be to submit a successfully completed version of the toolbox "Preparation for Life and Work in the 21st Century". The toolbox will include all of the comments and feedback received at earlier national workshops. Considerable importance will also be placed on the presentation of the reports of the Angola, Kenya, Mali that conducted pilot tests of the tools.

  
The toolkit will support capacity building activities, which promote curricula innovations emphasizing life and work skills and "learning to live together" in basic education. 

      
This seminar will reunite some thirty participants from 15 countries of sub-Saharan Africa (Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo-Brazzaville, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, South Africa, Botswana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, and Senegal), as well as international experts, UNESCO-IBE and GTZ/BMZ.

  
The seminar is jointly organized by the International Bureau of Education (IBE-UNESCO) and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

• Final report (coming soon) 

Appendices of the Report

• Agenda (PDF, 96 KB)
• Participants (PDF, 69 KB)

Experts presentations

IBE presentations

One year after the 48th International Conference on Education, UNESCO's International Bureau of Education (IBE) has the pleasure to announce that a worldwide e-forum will take place from 26 October to 13 November 2009 on the theme: “The 48th ICE: one year forward. From inclusive education to inclusive curricula.”

This e-forum seeks to encourage high quality cross-regional exchanges on inclusive education (IE) and curricula as well as the sharing of experiences and resources for implementing IE in schools and classrooms. The forum will be moderated by IE experts and IBE staff.

The members of the Community of Practice (COP) are cordially invited to share questions on experiences and effective practices in the field of IE and the design and implementation of inclusive curricula. Your inputs will be considered as stimulus in the forum. We look forward to your active participation and contribution!

For more information:

• Contact us at ibe.copanti spam bot@unescoanti spam bot.org
• E-forum 
• Register for the E-forum
• E-forum outline and discussion document (in all 6 UN languages)
• Join the COP

1.  An expert meeting on Guidance Notes for Quality Teaching and Learning in Emergencies (17 October 2009); and
2. A second expert meeting on revising the Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crisis and Early Reconstruction (19-21 October 2009).

The two meetings will contribute to improving the draft versions of the documents mentioned above in view of their finalisation in the near future. Given its expertise in curriculum development in post-conflict settings, the IBE was requested to contribute to the conceptualisation of the "Guidance Notes" and to the drafting of the "Curriculum" chapter.

• List of participants (17 October 2009)
• List of participants (19-21 October 2009)
• Invitation  (17 October 2009)

The introduction of the Basic Search box facilitates quick retrieval, and this is complemented by the Advanced Search facility which allows more in-depth searching.

This new version of IBEDOCs is the result of a two-year project that was initiated in October 2007. It involved working with library colleagues in UNESCO Headquarters,  to migrate the earlier CDS ISIS version of  IBEDOCs  to UNESDOC using Livelink. Much preparatory work had to be done in advance to maximize compatibility and make the migration as smooth as possible.

The online catalogue includes titles acquired since 1979, as well as all IBE publications from 1927 to the present, with links to the full text where available. The catalogue also includes references to the collection of archived periodicals.

• IBEDOCS

See also:

• IBE Documentation Centre
• UNESCO Documents and Publications (UNESDOC)