Inclusive Education in Latin America: Identifying and Analyzing Progress and Pending Challenges

Santiago de Chile, 18-20 November 2009 These are some of the main topics that will be discussed during the occasion of the Regional Meeting “Implementation of Inclusive Education Policies in Latin America: Progress and Pending Challenges”, being organized on 18-20 November 2009 in Santiago, Chile. This event will also serve to discuss the implementation of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities across the region. The meeting is organized by UNESCO through its Education Sector in Paris, the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC) and the International Bureau of Education (IBE), in partnership with the “Education for All (EFA) Flagship on the Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities: Towards Inclusion”. For more information:

• Provisional programme of the Meeting (PDF, 50 KB), in Spanish (PDF, 50 KB)
• La Educación Inclusiva, perspectiva internacional y retos de futuro, by R. Opertti (PDF, 130 KB, in Spanish)
• Inclusive education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Analysis of the 2008 series of National Reports, by M. Amadio (PDF, 110 KB, in Spanish)

See also:

• Website of OREALC
• IBE website (inclusive education)
• Website of the EFA Flagship