April 14, 2006Kiev, Ukraine Turgut Mustafayev

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Inclusive Education Practices in Azerbaijan
Accomplishments, Lessons and Future Goals
Educational Policy Toward Inclusion
International Experience and Ukrainian
Perspectives
2
Statistics on Children with Disabilities

• About 20,000 children with disabilities
• 5,535 school age children are educated
• 25 institutions
• 1,996 special educators
• 11 special pre-schools
• Rural Children with Disabilities

3
History of Inclusive Education in Azerbaijan

• MoE/OSI/WV Memorandum of Understanding
• 5-year State Development Program
• Renovation of institutions
• Renewal of content
• Pilot inclusion projects
• MoE National Action Plan

4
Government and NGO Involvement

• Ministry of Education
• Ministry of Labor and Social Protection
• World Vision
• International Medical Corps
• UNESCO

5
Pilot Inclusive Education Projects

• World Vision Project
• International Medical Corps Project
• UNESCO Project
• CIE Involvement
• Teacher Training
• Mentoring
• IEP Development

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Project Evaluation

• Goals of Evaluation
• Purposes of Evaluation
• Evaluation Results
• Recommendations to MoE

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Teachers Experiences

• Lack of experience
• Importance of team work
• No set pre-requisite for CWD enrolment
• Some unpleasant cases
• CWD Learning

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Major Barriers

• Lack of Special Education Department at MoE
• Scarcity of service specialists
• Lack of curriculum at higher education
• Resistance from the special education system

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Future Goals

• More active involvement of Working Group
• Teacher training to pre- and in-service
  institutes
• Publications on inclusion
• Public awareness
• Project expansion