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Professors Lani Florian and Martyn Rouse will speak on progress made in achieving education for all.
Professors Lani Florian and Martyn Rouse will consider some of the challenges in achieving Millennium Development Goal 2 (Universal Primary Education) in the context of the Education for All (EFA) movement and will ask why so many vulnerable children throughout the world are still denied meaningful educational opportunities. They will not only consider aspects of 'rights to education' but will also address fundamental questions of 'rights in education'. The relationship between education, poverty and disability will be explored. They will ask questions about the roles and responsibilities of NGO's and international agencies and their relationship with local and national governments in achieving EFA and MDG2 and draw on their experiences in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Professor Lani Florian
Before coming to Aberdeen, Lani Florian worked at the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge in the UK and at the University of Maryland in the USA. She is currently Professor of Social and Educational Inclusion at the University of Aberdeen where she is working with colleagues in the School of Education on the reform of initial teacher education programmes. Lani's research interests include models of provision for meeting the needs of all learners, inclusive pedagogy and teaching practices in inclusive schools. She has written extensively on inclusive education, practice and pedagogy and has been keynote speaker on these topics at many international conferences.
Professor Martyn Rouse
Martyn Rouse is Director of the Inclusive Practice Project (IPP) at the University of Aberdeen, which is designed to reform teacher education so that teachers are better prepared to work in the diverse classrooms to be found in schools today. Previously he was a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies for Education at St Catherine's College, Cambridge. He has undertaken research and development work on inclusion for local authorities in the UK and for several national and international agencies, including the European Agency for Special Needs Education, the OECD and UNICEF. Recent international worked in the Republic of Georgia, Latvia, Bosnia, Serbia and Armenia. He co-ordinated a Department for International Development (DFID) project with the Kenyan Ministry of Education designed to build educational capacity at the local level so that more disabled children might attend school and he worked on RECOUP as part of a research consortia exploring how better quality education might reduce poverty in India, Pakistan, Ghana and Kenya.
- Speaker
- Professors Lani Florian and Martyn Rouse (School of Education, University of Aberdeen)
- Hosted by
- Centre for Sustainable International Development
- Venue
- Aberdeen Foyer Marywell Training & Conference Centre Marywell Street Aberdeen AB11 6JF
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