Curriculum development
- To transform learners who are usually positioned as recipients of support – including learners with disabilities in Japan and children in crisis-affected contexts – into active supporters of others.
- To create inclusive learning environments where diverse contributions are recognised and valued, regardless of disability, socio-economic status or country context.
- To support teacher professional development in rights-based, participatory and project-based approaches to inclusive education.
- To establish sustainable, reciprocal partnerships between a Japanese special
There is an on-going need for inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream kindergarten programmes. A large number of included children with disabilities are in mainstream programmes; the third year of providing training in the Centre of Excellence (85 attendants – speech and language therapists, psychologists, educational rehabilitators, pedagogues, kindergarten teachers).
The One School for All programme has one strategic objective: to contribute to quality education for all children that will allow everyone to develop their full potential.
It also has three specific objectives:
The main aims of the introduction of the differentiated CAPS were:
To achieve maximum personal development and abilities of our learners, users and workers, both deaf and hearing, through a comprehensive education. This education is based on an inclusive project that values and meets the educational and communication needs of our entire community in oral language, sign language and alternative systems.
The project’s main aim is to identify people with disabilities and people with chronic illnesses who live in Cyprus and in Greece (which is geographically and linguistically close to Cyprus), whose biographies and work could be used to promote inclusive education values. The material collected is digitised and published on a website that is widely disseminated. It has been used in studies seeking to identify the value of employing such material in the school curriculum (refer to website for references).