Closing Plenary at the BBELT Conference in Mexico City, organized by the British Council - Teaching What Counts

1. EDUCATION

2. Inclusive
Education in ELT
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4. EDUCATION for ALL

7. “Sustaining and enhancing the dignity, capacity and
welfare of the human person, in relation to others
and to nature, should be the fundamental purpose
of education in the twenty-first century”
UNESCO 2015

8. 14% 35%

9. Children with disabilities are
among the world’s most
marginalized and excluded
children.
World Health Organization – World Bank 2011

10. Industrial Revolution

11. factory workers

12. compulsory schooling

13. Escuela obligatoria

14. Escuela obligatoria

15. Change of Paradigm

16. From a selective education system
to an inclusive one.

17. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education
and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

18. “Quality education implies equity in education.
Without equity, there’s no quality education.”
“If we do not create quality inclusive schools, we
are contributing to mediocrity.”
Philippe Meirieu, 2018

19. Inclusive education ‘focuses on the
full and effective participation,
accessibility, attendance and
achievement of all students,
especially those who, for different
reasons, are excluded or at risk of
being marginalized’.

21. Exclusion is a problem of design.

22. Inclusion is a process

23. Inclusion is concerned with the
identification and removal of
barriers.

24. ?

27. Inclusion is about presence,
participation and achievement
of all students.

28. Inclusion involves a particular emphasis on those learners
who may be at risk of
marginalization, exclusion or underachievement.

29. If you don’t know your students very well,
how can you cater for their needs?
Joy Egbert, IATEFL Plenary 2015

30. https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/positive-
classroom-community

31. A community of living and learning from
freedom and fairness.

32. Cooperation

33. https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/encourage-
student-collaboration

34. Cooperation

35. � Is teaching planned with all students in mind?
� Do lessons encourage the participation of all students?
� Are students actively involved in their own learning?
� Are students encouraged to support one another’s learning?
� Is support provided when students experience difficulties?
� Is classroom discipline based on mutual respect and healthy living?
� Do students feel that they have somebody to speak to when they are worried or
upset?
� Does assessment contribute to the achievement of all students? UNESCO, 2017

36. Universal Design

37. http://www.cast.org/

39. envision the best future for the
world
promote respect for difference
share, hold conversations,
collaborate

40. “What does it mean to “be ready” or “not to be ready”? What
can be understood from that statement regarding an alleged
“knowledge of what to do” facing each child, each body, each
language, each way of learning, each way of being in the
world.
I believe it is impossible to know, to feel and to be ready to
what the future may bring. Instead of insisting on being ready
in anticipation of something that we don’t know for certain,
we should highlight the idea of being available and
responsible.
This idea is clearly ethical; I am available and responsible to
receive anybody, everybody, each one.” Carlos Skliar

41. Thank you
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42. REFERENCES
✓ ¿Qué educación frente a los desafíos contemporáneos? –Philippe Meirieu, 2018
✓ A guide for ensuring inclusion – UNESCO 2017
✓ Calidad y excelencia en el marco de la educación personalizada – Pablo Cayota 2016
✓ Ecología y nuevo paradigma civilizatorio – Leonardo Boff 2015
✓ Educación inclusiva: un principio transversal para el cambio de la educación y de los
sistemas educativos – Mel Ainscow, 2017
✓ El aula inclusiva, el espacio educativo para todos – M. Eugenia Yadarola 2007
✓ Engagement principles and practice in classroom learning, language and technology – Joy
Egbert IATEFL Plenary 2015
✓ Para poder trabajar por proyectos de investigación en el aula, primero debemos
conocernos. Maria Jose Parages y Miguel Lopez Melero, 2012
✓ Pedagogias de las diferencias – Carlos Skliar, 2018
✓ Reaching out to all learners – UNESCO 2016
✓ The efficiency of inefficiency: an ecological perspective on curriculum – Kathleen Graves
IATELF Plenary 2014
✓ The State of the World’s Children 2013 - Children with Disabilities – UNICEF
✓ Universal Design for Learning Guidelines - CAST (2018).
✓ World Report on Disability – World Health Organization – The World Bank