Middle East
According to Mitchell (2005), at the beginning of the 21st century, the vast majority of children with “traditional disabilities” are educated in these types of facilities in the Middle East.
Special schools or centers
This country has ensured its tendency to provide “a high quality of Education as it is a fundamental right for all” and consequently, had projects such as the one-classroom schools for girls, community schools the ‘Girls’ Education Initiative’ and schools for ‘homeless children’ projects.
Egypt
(The Development of Education in Egypt 2004- 2008 A National Report 2008)
These type of people make up 88.5% of population of the UAE. Many of them were drawn to the oil-rich nation due to its economic flourishing and warm weather.
expats (or immigrants, migrants)
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Qatar Airlines
Before 1970, there were only this many schools in Oman.
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Each of these three city-states is relatively politically stable, has developed social welfare programs, and has laws supporting the integration of people with disabilities in larger society.
Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait
Khedive Esmae’el built a school that included 6 deaf and blind students and a new special school including 100 students, both boys and girls, in this century, notable for also being the century in which Kenesary Khan lived:
19th century (1874)
In an effort to diversify the economy so that it is not reliant entirely on oil, the UAE has prioritized the development of this sphere, especially through close ties with the West.
Higher education
This UN convention, adopted in 2006 and ratified by Qatar in 2008, focuses on protecting the rights of people with disabilities.
UNCRPD
In contrast to Professor Sourav’s favorite social justice model, this is the primary model which has historically informed, and to some extent still informs, inclusive education in Oman.
Charity model
This conflict zone has an official inclusive education policy which was passed in 2015, but occupation followed by active war have prevented much of this policy from becoming practice.
Palestine
This law, issued in 1933, states that all children have the right to education. If you were to put the name of the law through Thesaurus.com, you might get "Mandatory Learning Rule."
Compulsory Education Law
This 21st century international human rights treaty directly affected the UAE’s 2010 School for All policy.
UNCRPD
These are the two main goals of the Qatar School of Banking Sciences for Girls, which was opened in the 2015-2016 academic year.
1. To provide a high-quality specialized education in various sectors
2. Supporting women's integration into the economic sectorIn 2015, Oman partnered with UNICEF in passing NSCA, an initiative which allowed children with this diagnosis to attend mainstream schools.A
ASD
This nation that shares its name with a famous basketball player traditionally has had a dual education system, in which special education was routed through separate schools or resource rooms.
Jordan
These are the three phases of the general progression of inclusive education in Egypt (and honestly much of the rest of the world as well). ("UNICEF Egypt - Education - Context", 2017)
2. Building schools/institutions for kids with disabilities
3. Integration into mainstream schools
This is the current nomenclature in the UAE for what we usually call SEN students.
students of determination
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4
When Oman first started including kids with learning disabilities in mainstream school, they established learning disability centers, which were basically resource rooms, in schools. These were staffed by teachers with this type of training.
One year in-service training
In a study comparing inclusive education implementation in the US and Jordan, this was found to be the best predictor of inclusive practices.
Formal training
According to UNHCR, 86% of refugee children aged 6-17 attend school, whether public, community, or private. Attendance rates were highest among refugees from these 4 countries, each of which has had notable war/conflict:
1. Sudan
2. South Sudan
3. Syria
4. Iraq
This main concern of UAE teachers about inclusive education is also the name of a course we have taken in GSE.
curriculum adaptation and assessment
These 6 types of support are provided by the Qatar Association of Rehabilitation of Special Needs, established in 1992 (MoFA, 2011).
Social
Psychological
Medical
Financial
Educational
Rehabilitative
Yesterday in class, Professor Oliver told us he doesn’t like this phrase, which can be used to describe one reason why Inclusive Education in Oman is not as advanced as some of its neighbors.
Lack of adequate resources.