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HOW LESOTHO CAN OVERCOME ITS BOTTLENECKS & IMPLEMENT ITS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION POLICY


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Date
2021-11
Author
Lesotho Council of NGOs
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Policy Brief
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en
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Abstract
The obligation to educate all people, including people with disabilities, was proclaimed by Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948: everyone has the right to education (United Nations, 1948). After much lobbying by Disabled People Organizations (DPOs) in the mid-80s, Lesotho finally lay the ground work for a policy to integrate children with disabilities into the mainstream schooling system in 1990 (Stubbs, 2000: 1). Promisingly, a Special Education Unit was established and a Feasibility study for Special Education was conducted in 1992 (1). Despite the Ministry of Education and Training’s (MoET) early commitment Lesotho’s Inclusive Education Policy was only completed in 2019 with a Commonwealth Study noting that “despite promising practice in the 1990s, Lesotho has not made the expected gains in inclusive education” (Reiser, 2012). In fact, about 40% of children with disabilities between the ages of 5 and 10 still do not attend primary school while 23% of children with disabilities between ages 10 and likewise 20 do not attend high school (Eriamiatoe, 2013). Urgent policy action is therefore overdue to rectify this course.
Subject
inclusive education
URI
https://www.africaeducationhub.org/handle/hesa/57
HESA Country
Lesotho
HESA Region
Southern Africa
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