Education should be inclusive at all levels and ensure the access of disabled children and teenagers to the same general education offered to all. Their right to equal educational opportunities is our obligation as educators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFNIgg4e780

1. 49th Annual International IATEFL Conference -
2015
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2. “Learning is discovery”
“People don’t learn in isolation, they
do it with others.
We learn by interacting with others,
because we teach one another and
we all learn from each other.”

3. PABLO PINEDA

5. “One in twenty children, up to the age of
14, live with a moderate or severe
disability.”
93 million children

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

7. Education should be inclusive at
all levels and it should ensure
equal access to the same
general education offered to all.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 2006

10. all children from a community learn together regardless
of their personal, social or cultural condition, including
those with disability

11. Universal Design

12. Schools and classroom
for All, with All
at All times

13.  Ecological Perspective
on Curriculum
Kathleen Graves, IATEFL plenary 2014
 Universal Curriculum
Design

14. Universal Curriculum Design
multiple:
ways of
representing
“what”
means of
action &
expression
“how”
reasons
“why”

15. time
school family
community

16. Living and Learning
Communities

17. Logical Thinking Process
what how why
Research Project-based Learning

18. evaluation

20.  universal curriculum design – ecological
curriculum design
 research project based curriculum
collaborative work
 school-family-society
 self-evaluation, peer-evaluation, group
evaluation, process evaluation,
competence-acquisition

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24. @MercedesViola https://mercedesviola.wordpress.com/
Thank you!

25. REFERENCES
The State of the World’s Children 2013 - Children with Disabilities – UNICEF
 Universal Design for Learning Guidelines - CAST (2011).
Para poder trabajar por proyectos de investigación en el aula, primero debemos
conocernos. Maria Jose Parages y Miguel Lopez Melero, 2012
World Report on Disability – World Health Organization – The World Bank
Examples of Inclusive Education – UNICEF 2003
Monitoreo Internacional de los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad – IDRM
2004
Ciclo de Debates: Desafíos de la Política Educacional "INCLUSIÓN DE NIÑOS CON
DISCAPACIDAD EN LA ESCUELA REGULAR" UNICEF Fondo de las Naciones
Unidas para la Infancia Oficina de Area para Argentina, Chile y Uruguay 2001
Ecología y nuevo paradigma civilizatorio – Leonardo Boff 2015
The efficiency of inefficiency: an ecological perspective on curriculum – Kathleen
Graves IATELF Plenary 2014