International Conference on Education targets inclusion, November 25 to 28
- Poster 2008
Marginalised children including those with disabilities, migrants, street children and HIV/AIDS orphans are largely excluded from the school system.
How to include them is the theme of the International Conference on Education, organized by UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education (IBE) from 25 to 28 November in Geneva (Switzerland).
The conference, “Inclusive Education: the Way of the Future” will examine ways for schools to become more open to diversity and effectively reduce the drop-out rate. It aims to share experiences regarding education for inclusion, identify educational systems that take the diversity of pupils into account, and examine the role of governments in implementing policies promoting inclusion.
The event will bring together some 1,500 participants, among them 100 ministers and deputy ministers as well as education experts, representatives of NGOs and United Nations agencies. The opening plenary session, presided by UNESCO’s Director-General, Koïchiro Matsuura, will feature an introductory debate.
During the Conference, UNESCO will launch the 2009 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, “Overcoming inequality: Why governance matters”. Eight years after the World Education Forum in Dakar (Senegal), it assesses the progress towards achieving Education for All goals.
In the run up to the conference a collection of more than 70 National Reports on the educational systems of different countries has been gathered.
These reports are one of the main sources for comparing educational data across countries and over time, and an invaluable tool for the exchange of information and experience in the field of education. The conference has also drawn messages of support from the Education Ministers of 135 countries worldwide.
Participants will also have the opportunity to attend a screening of the film The Class (Entre Les Murs). The film, directed by Laurent Cantet and winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, was entirely shot in a public school located in a working-class Paris neighbourhood and explores the daily challenge of teaching a class of young teenagers coming from mixed cultural and social backgrounds.
The International Conference on Education is a major international forum for education policy dialogue among Ministers of Education and other stakeholders (researchers, practitioners, representatives of intergovernmental organizations and civil society).
It is organized by the International Bureau of Education (IBE), the UNESCO institute specializing in assisting Member States to achieve quality Education for All through innovative curriculum development and implementation. (UNESCO)
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