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Policy brief: Teacher professional development for students with disability in the Asia-Pacific
Global education monitoring
  • Syeda Kashfee Ahmed, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Anannya Chakraborty, ACER India
Publication Date
5-1-2023
Subjects
Disability, Professional development, Inclusive education, Policy formation, Developing countries
Abstract

Around the world, policymakers and development organisations are increasingly supporting the education of students with disability, particularly in the bid to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 – to ensure ‘inclusive and equitable quality education for all’. Yet globally, more than half of students with disability drop out of secondary school due to the lack of support in classrooms (UNESCAP, 2019). In the Asia-Pacific region, resource shortages and high student drop-out rates significantly impact the shift to inclusive education. Additionally, educational segregation of students with disability is widely accepted in low- and middle-income countries in the region, despite international evidence of improved academic and social outcomes for students with disability educated in inclusive settings. Developing teachers’ understanding of disabilities and building their capacity to implement evidence-based inclusive teaching practices and effectively use assistive technologies, are key to transitioning to inclusive education of students with disability.

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Place of Publication
Camberwell, Australia
Publisher
Australian Council for Educational Research
ISBN
978-1-74286-708-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.37517/978-1-74286-708-3
Citation Information
Syeda Kashfee Ahmed and Anannya Chakraborty. "Policy brief: Teacher professional development for students with disability in the Asia-Pacific" (2023)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anannya-chakraborty/21/