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Save the Children’s work is underpinned by a commitment of making children’s rights a reality that was first set out by the organization’s founder over 75 years ago. Education is not only a right in itself, but an “enabling right”- a critical instrument for bringing about “social, economic and political inclusion and a durable integration of people, particularly those ‘excluded’ from the mainstream of any society”
To address this challenge, Save the children has adopted the strategy of facilitating the creation of ‘Inclusive Learner Friendly Environments’ targeted at 3-18 years within diverse educational settings to meet the challenge of addressing diverse and heterogeneous need of children.
The focus of our approach is based on a three pronged strategy involving intervention in three domains of the education system;
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Organisation of Schools
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Instructional Dimension
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Community Involvement
We plan to develop 'model inclusive schools' across at least five States of India. This will be implemented through developing a core group of master trainers consisting of eduction personal as well as SCERT and DIET/SIET faculty, who in turn will train teachers in pre-schools and schools. We will work with selected schools/Anganwadi centres and pre-primary classes over the next five years to intervene in all the three dimensions to make them model Inclusive Learner friendly Schools.
Our aim is that these models of ‘Inclusive’ pre- primary and primary environments are able to demonstrate the efficacy addressing individual needs of children belonging to most disadvantaged backgrounds through creation of ‘schools for all’, thereby realizing the dream of achieving Education For All.
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