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What does inclusion and diversity really mean to educators?

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I worked as a teacher in mainstream schools for over 20 years. Then I started teaching in Spastics Society of Karnataka, from 2006 onwards. Popularly known as SSK, this NGO provides diagnostic and rehabilitation services for children with neuromuscular and developmental disabilities. The NGO has a special focus on cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism spectrum […]

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Disability and inclusiveness: starting from the family

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I would like to talk of the intellectually disabled (ID) as I work with these jewels of mankind. To include is to acknowledge. What I have painfully seen is so many are not even acknowledged as entities, as whole human beings. I myself have been guilty of this most of my adult life until I

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Inclusiveness for people with disabilities at work and outside

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Introduction to blog series on inclusion and disability What does true and genuine inclusiveness mean with respect to disability? Where does it actually start? Unlike other categories of diversity we usually examine with respect to workplace and the public sphere, inclusiveness in terms of disability probably needs to start in the private sphere, at home,

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Embracing diversity, equity and inclusion in India

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African Leadership Academy: truly diverse A Zambian, a Kenyan, a Moroccan, a Ghanaian, a Malagasy, an Indian and a Slovak walked into a cafeteria. Sounds like the beginning of a joke! But this was what our lunch table often looked like at African Leadership Academy. Every meaningful conversation about diversity takes me back to this

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What diversity had to do with Quantas

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The Qantas story Qantas in 2013 recorded their lowest points with a loss of AUD $2.8 Billion. However in 2017 they recorded a profit of AUD $850 Million. How did this happen? CEO Alan Joyce who openly identifies as gay; “reflects this to “having a very diverse environment and a very inclusive culture”. According to

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Everyday gender bias at the Indian workplace

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Why women leave At an organisation, several women had been leaving for the last couple of years or switched to part-time contracts. A senior male employee remarked, “I think all these women have rich husbands, they don’t need to work. So they are leaving”. His powers of deductive logic aside, it is precisely attitudes such

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What does inclusion and diversity really mean to educators?

Disability and inclusiveness: starting from the family

Inclusiveness for people with disabilities at work and outside

Embracing diversity, equity and inclusion in India

What diversity had to do with Quantas

Everyday gender bias at the Indian workplace

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What does inclusion and diversity really mean to educators?

Disability and inclusiveness: starting from the family

Inclusiveness for people with disabilities at work and outside

Embracing diversity, equity and inclusion in India

What diversity had to do with Quantas

Everyday gender bias at the Indian workplace

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