- Title
- Pacific Inclusive Education Model: Addressing dichotomies to ensure positive outcomes
- Creator
- Page, Angela; Vira, Angelinah; Ledger, Susan; Mosen, Joanne; Anderson, Joanna; Charteris, Jennifer; Boyle, Christopher
- Relation
- Journal of Education Policy Vol 38, Issue 5, p. 870-889
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2022.2080275
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a global blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for every person, through universal action to address social, economic, and environmental inequity and inequality (United Nations Development Programme, 2021). For educators, SDG Goal 4 aims to ensure an equitable quality education that promotes lifelong learning opportunities and this goal has been endorsed by Pacific United Nations States in order to pave the road towards an inclusive education for all. We wish to argue, however, that attempting to meet global development goals for inclusive education is fundamentally problematic because of the nuances of the regions and contexts. For example, Pacific states, might better benefit from its own inclusive education trajectory that reflects individual contexts and understanding of distinct educational complexities. We propose the alignment of the global goals that positions local discourses of knowledge, values and understanding alongside inclusive education frameworks. The Pacific Disability Model offers a third space for disability discussions and actions that intersects global and local policy and practice binaries. By doing so, it is hoped that an inclusive approach to education can reach its potential for all, and particularly, students with disabilities in Pacific nations.
- Subject
- relationality; Pacific Disability Model; sustainability; inclusive education; SDG 4; SDG 8; SDG 10; SDG 17; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1478429
- Identifier
- uon:50171
- Identifier
- ISSN:0268-0939
- Rights
- © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
- Language
- eng
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Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
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