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T owards Inclusive Universities by Empowering Disabled Students

T owards Inclusive Universities by Empowering Disabled Students. Claire Özel, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Innsbruck 2010. Towards Inclusive Universities - TIU. EU project under Civil Society Dialogue Program (Turkey) 17 months: July 2008-Nov.2009

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T owards Inclusive Universities by Empowering Disabled Students

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  1. Towards Inclusive Universitiesby Empowering Disabled Students Claire Özel, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Innsbruck 2010

  2. Towards Inclusive Universities - TIU • EU project under Civil Society Dialogue Program (Turkey) • 17 months: July 2008-Nov.2009 • Partner countries: Turkey-Netherlands

  3. Partners • 2 Turkish universities (MKU Antakya, METU Ankara) • Dutch Expert Centre for Studying with Disability in Higher Education  Netherlands: Handicap Studie H+S Associates • 2 Turkish universities (YYU Van, Ege U Izmir) • European Association for International Education EAIE • NIHA Netherlands Institute for Higher Education, Ankara (TR)

  4. Participation • H+S: experience, knowledge, vision • 4 TR universities S-central-E-W • 9 countries (BE BG FR GR NL RO SL TR UK) in TIU activities • 20 countries 54 unis answered survey • 30+ countries at EAIE conference (BW CZ FR JM JP MX NL NP SE PL TR UG ZA…)

  5. Turkey – EU – Disability • 1963: EU (predecessors) candidate • 2002 disability data: 12.29% • 2005: Disability Act • 2006: Higher Education Disability Directive • High internet use • GVZ: Turkish screen reader

  6. Project background • 5 day LdV with UK (UWE) Jan.2007 • 1st TR Workshop on Disability in HE • e-platform of university staff (now over 300 from 100 universities networking online) • CSD (Turkey): funding call May-Aug 2007 • H+S at 6th Innsbruck conference (July 2007) • TIU proposal submitted Aug.2007 • accepted June 2008

  7. TIU Aims • Establishing cooperation between disability support specialists in different EU countries, especially Turkey and the Netherlands • Exchanging information on SwD between universities (in Turkey and internationally) • Improving management capacities of university disability coordinators • Implementing common standards and guidelines for inclusiveness at universities • Reaching better orientation to get more SwD into university • Enhancing SwD role models

  8. TIU Activities • TIU1 Launch (Antakya 9.08) • TIU2 Study visit (NL 12.08) • TIU3 Survey (online 3-6.09) • TIU4 Adviser training (Ankara 6-7.09) • TIU5 Students (Ankara/online 7-9.09) • TIU6 Standards meeting (Antakya 11.09) • TIU7 Closing meeting (Antakya 11.09)

  9. Outcomes: ‘Establishing cooperation between disability support specialists in different EU countries, especially Turkey and the Netherlands’ - TIU1 TIU2 • H+S meetings, presentations, information • Meet NL SwD, advisers • Visit to 2 NL univ. • Realistic evaluation: situation and needs, achievements and targets • ‘Shadowing’ to raise capacities • Communication skills • Contacts

  10. Outcomes: ‘Exchanging information on disabled students between universities (in Turkey and internationally)’ - TIU3 • www.tiu.org.tr website, (Bosnia, Cambodia, Indonesia Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan, Peru, Vietnam, in top 10 site viewers) • www.tiu.org.tr/turkce hosts Turkish universities’ data • Survey of 50 universities in 20 countries (including Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Russia) • Student stories. • EAIE: access to over 75 countries • TIU6: how to take First Steps • More research needed

  11. Outcomes: ‘Improving management capacities of university disability coordinators’ – TIU4 • Trained 13 disability advisers from 11 Turkish universities • Gave principles to empower all to find our own ways • Experts: SwD from 5 Turkish universities, Holland, Slovenia and Bulgaria. • Identified‘1st ever’ training procedure and criteria for the first disability advisers in a country; no assumptions about infrastructure, legislation, implementation, funding, knowledge • Case studies; what and how to use? • TRAINING HANDBOOK

  12. Outcomes: ‘Reaching better orientation to get more disabled students into university’ – TIU5 • SwD empowerment: 21 SwD: 6 role models (NL-SL), 15 from BG-TR • Sharing information; modelling skills • Participating in meetings. Understanding procedures. Discussing aims, developing vision/mission statements. • SwD advising Disability Advisers. • DVD: 12 TR SwD tell stories (TR-EN subtitles) • TR SwD Platform: 13 page declaration, Exam Board protest

  13. Outcomes: ‘Implementing common standards and guidelines for inclusiveness at universities’ – TIU6 • Cooperation between specialists, especially Eastern Europe. • Finding common points, ways/resistance. • Sharing solutions. U.of Athens • “Good Practice Guidelines”– TR translation of AHEAD text (2008) • http://groups.google.com/group/InternationalHigherEducationDisabilityAdvisers

  14. TIU Outputs • Website with project outcomes and Turkish platform information: Online information for Disability Units at 135/151 TR universities (3-5/80 in 2007) • Disability Adviser Training Handbook • AHEAD Ireland’s “Good Practice Guidelines” handbook in Turkish • “Disabled Turkish Students” DVD • International Higher Educational Disability Advisers Forum • European University Students with Disabilities Forum • Active Turkish University Students with Disabilities Platform • EAIE DIW International Outreach Member

  15. Less direct outcomes • Change: new networks, habits, norms, assumptions and reflexes • Seeing connections and implications • Turkish participant at MIUSA Aug.2010 • UK autism specialist to Van, TR And in parallel: • TR Higher Education Council Disability Committee training days. • First law cases

  16. European Association for International Education– • Madrid 9.09 EAIE Conference: contacting universities in 75 countries, • Disability Issues Worldwide SIG • Disability for Erasmus officers, careers officers: merging agendas • Student exchanges and internships • Writing competition • International Outreach member DIW

  17. Handicap+Studie • Understood needs: of system, of universities, of SwD and advisers • Involved many stakeholders, who identify own needs and express them. • Triggered discussion with NL materials • Defined disability, empowerment • How to identify resources, progress, partners • Empowered all involved

  18. Inclusion without borders: whatever the limitations Inclusion of SwD in university // Inclusion of all universities in disability support provision // Inclusion of all countries …at Innsbruck conferences on HE and Disability. • Inclusion on a global scale, beyond individual people at specific universities, national legislation and procedures • Empowering those excluded - Understanding first steps for any country • Methodology transferable to any country setting up university level disability support – whatever infrastructure, legislation and funding

  19. Where next… • Developing skills, shadowing • Following up contacts, networking • Broadening networks; transition schooluniversity • Targeting specific local resistance • Reaching out to Non-included countries… • Jumping evolutionary steps: empowerment through others’ experience. How can new SwD become ready to receive experience of foreign role models?

  20. Thank you Claire Özel, TIU Deputy Coordinator METU, Ankara, TR www.tiu.org.tr

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