Schools need to hire, support and promote disabled educators and administrators to help model and envision inclusive communities. (Shutterstock)
The Conversation: How school systems can honour the human rights of people with disabilities
As written in The Conversation by Michael Baker, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba.
In Canada, ongoing advocacy efforts from disabled communities have resulted in an evolution of education over time. Generally speaking, “inclusive education” promises the equitable inclusion of disabled students in kindergarten to Grade 12 (K-12) schools.
But true inclusion requires more than existing in the same building or classroom. It requires envisioning models based in a human rights approach that recognize diversity and acknowledge that people are not defined by one characteristic.
Read the article in The Conversation.
Research at the University of Manitoba is partially supported by funding from the Government of Canada Research Support Fund.