Inclusive Education: Why UN Human Rights Experts Strongly Campaign For High Quality Education For All Learners, Persons With Disabilities

Most if not everyone may be aware that access to high quality education is considered a part of every person's civil rights. Unfortunately, UNESCO's Institute for Statistics discovered in 2015 that 757 million adults, including 115 million youths still have no access to basic education.

With such a disclosure, the United Nations human rights experts are strongly pushing for the so-called inclusive education. It's a system that provides all learners, including those persons with disabilities, the opportunity to access high quality education.

According to the UN News Center, persons with disabilities are normally deprived of good quality education. The newly released guidelines from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, however, indicates that inclusive learning could equip them with vital life, language and social skills. Committee Chairperson Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes also stressed that inclusive education has the potential to profoundly transform culture, program and training in all formal and informal educational environments to guarantee that education are designed for all learners.

In addition, inclusive education is also essential to the communities where persons with disabilities reside, especially as it helps fight discrimination by encouraging diversity and participation. It also focuses on full and effective participation, attendance and achievement of all students and accessibility for those who are left out or at risk of being marginalized.

In other education-related news, education experts are reportedly deliberating on content areas that students should have mastered by the time they graduate from school. As per the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center's Education Policy Director Rita Pin Ahrens, students should be able to think critically and independently, The Atlantic noted.

Upon graduation, students should also have mastered the basic skill of reading, They should be able to control and acclimatize to the ever-changing technology and modes of communication, at the same time as  able to understand how to collaborate with others. Students should also master both college inclination and career preparation.

Meanwhile, education experts have also explained why there is a need to change the one-teacher standard concept. Ahrens revealed in another report that students and educational institutions will benefit more from co-teaching models, where each subject will be handled by a different teacher,

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