Course Title: Disability & Development: Toward an Inclusive Development:
2 Courses:
- Open Learning Course
- Advanced Training Course
Introduction:
Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Disability Equality Training (DET) Forum will hold two (2) online courses on Disability & Development:
Open Learning Course (Introductory Course): This is an open course for everyone those who are interested in learning basics of Disability & Development. This includes one-day online live seminar (4th June 2024: 11:00 – 13:00 [11AM – 1PM] in Thailand [GMT+7]). Free of charge.
Advanced Training Course: This is a training course to learn disability & development comprehensively. This includes 5-day online live schooling (4th, 17th, 20th, 24th, 27th June: 11:00 – 13:00 [11AM – 1PM] in Thailand [GMT+7]). Attendance of all online schooling and submission of learning tasks are the compulsory conditions for the certificates of completion. This is a charged course (US Dollar 150 per person). This Course aims to develop perspectives/frameworks for analysis and action for inclusive development. This course does not include theme-specific contents, e.g. education, employment, health, etc. Day-1 (Module 1) of this course is same as Open Learning Course.
Application Deadline: 13th May 2024:
Open Learning Course: (from below)
https://forms.gle/QAADKysjge5wHggQA
(Those who want to apply for an Advanced Training Course, you do not need to register via this link. You need to register from “Advanced Training Course” link. “Open Learning Course” is a part of “Advanced Training Course” as Module 1.)
Advanced Training Course: (from below).
https://forms.gle/mEBsvodcPcccRPqy6
1. Date & Time:
Open Learning Course: Online Live Seminar: 4th June 2024: 11:00 – 13:00 [11AM – 1PM] in Thailand [GMT+7]).
Advanced Training Course: Online Live Schooling (17th, 20th, 24th, 27th June: 11:00 – 13:00 [11AM – 1PM] in Thailand [GMT+7]).
2. Location:
- Online (Zoom. Google Chat Space is used as a Learning Platform for Advanced Course)
3. Language:
- English
4. Fee:
- Open Learning Course: Free of charge
- Advanced Training Course: US Doller 150 per person. Payment method (credit card payment only) and payment due date will be informed later.
5. Programme:
Open Learning Course: 4th June (Tuesday) 2024 (Thailand time)
Time |
Contents |
10:50 |
(Participants enter a Zoom) |
11:00 |
Introduction to the Course |
11:15 |
1-1. What is Disability? |
12:15 |
(break) |
12:25 |
1-2. "Disability and Development": Challenges and Trends |
12:50 |
1-3. Introduction to the Advanced Training Course |
13:00 |
(end) |
* This Open Learning Course contents is a Module 1 for the participants of Advanced Training Course.
Advanced Training Course:
(Module 1 is an Open Learning Course)
Module 2: Frameworks of Analysis:
2-1. Framework of Disability: Social Model of Disability
2-2. Framework of "Disability and Development": Capability Approach, Gender & Development, Social Exclusion, Social Capital, etc.
Module 3: Frameworks and Approaches of Action:
3-1. Twin-Track Approach, 2E (Empowerment & Enablement), 2I (Inclusion & Integration) and 2D (Diversity & Disability/Discrimination).
3-2. Approaches: Community-Based Approach (CBID), Participatory Learning & Action (PLA), Appropriate Technology (AT), Inter-subjectivity, etc.
Programme: (Thailand time)
Time |
Contents |
17 June |
Module 2-1 |
10:50 |
(Participants enter a Zoom) |
11:00 |
Introduction to the Course |
11:15 |
2-1. Framework of Disability: Social Model of Disability (1) |
12:00 |
(break) |
12:10 |
2-1. Framework of Disability: Social Model of Disability (2) |
12:40 |
Group Work (Breakout Session) |
12:55 |
Wrap up |
13:00 |
(end) |
|
|
20 June |
Module 2-2 |
10:50 |
(Participants enter a Zoom) |
11:00 |
2-2. Framework of "Disability and Development": Capability Approach, etc. (1) |
11:50 |
(break) |
12:00 |
2-2. Framework of "Disability and Development": Capability Approach, etc. (2) |
12:40 |
Group Work (Breakout Session) |
12:55 |
Wrap up |
13:00 |
(end) |
|
|
24 June |
Module 3-1 |
10:50 |
(Participants enter a Zoom) |
11:00 |
3-1. Twin-Track Approach, 2E, 2I & 2D (1) |
11:50 |
(break) |
12:00 |
3-1. Twin-Track Approach, 2E, 2I & 2D (2) |
12:40 |
Group Work (Breakout Session) |
12:55 |
Wrap up |
13:00 |
(end) |
|
|
27 June |
Module 3-2 |
10:50 |
(Participants enter a Zoom) |
11:00 |
3-2. Approaches: CBID, PLA, AT, etc. (1) |
11:50 |
(break) |
12:00 |
3-2. Approaches: CBID, PLA, AT, etc. (2) |
12:40 |
Group Work (Breakout Session) |
12:55 |
Wrap up |
13:00 |
(end) |
Submission of Learning Tasks (summary sheets) of each module is compulsory condition for the certificates of completion.
6. Online Platform for Learning & Follow up
Advanced Training Course will use a Google Chat Space as an online learning platform to provide course materials, share information, etc. You must submit your google account (Gmail address) when you apply to the course.
7. Expected Participants
Open Learning Course: 30 participants those who are working in disability and/or development programs in Asia and Pacific region.
Advanced Training Course: 15 participants those who have been working in the field of disability and development more than 5 years, especially on inclusive development in Asia and Pacific region.
8. Application Procedures & Schedule
Application Deadline: 13th May 2024
Open Learning Course: (from below)
https://forms.gle/QAADKysjge5wHggQA
(Those who want to apply for an Advanced Training Course, you do not need to register via this link. You need to register from “Advanced Training Course” link. “Open Learning Course” is a part of “Advanced Training Course” as Module 1.)
Advanced Training Course: (from below).
https://forms.gle/mEBsvodcPcccRPqy6
NOTE for Advanced Training Course: Selection result will be informed by 20th May 2024
9. Resource Person:
Dr. Kenji KUNO:
He is a senior advisor on social protection (especially Disability & Development) for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is the Japanese government’s agency for an international development. He has been working in the field of disability and development over thirty-five years, especially on Disability Education (Disability Equality Training: DET), livelihood (supported employment), and Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) in the Southeast Asian region and the world. He obtained Ph.D. in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. He is also a visiting professor of Nihon Fukushi University (Japan) in charge on postgraduate courses (Master and Doctorate degrees) on disability and development for over twenty years. He is a founding director of DET Forum (www.detforum.com).
He is currently dispatched to the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) as an advisor on disability & development.
His publications in English are: Doing Disability Equality Training (2012, MPH Publishing), Job Coach Handbook (co-editor, 2012, MPH Publishing), Does Community Based Rehabilitation Really Work? (2007, Institute Social Malaysia Research Monograph No. 5), and so on.
10. Reasonable Accommodation
- Please fill in the section of reasonable accommodation in registration form for reasonable accommodation requirement, if any.
- Online live sessions: speech-to-text (closed captioning) and chat will be used.
11. Enquiry
Ms. Supaanong Panyasirimongkol (NuNu),
E-mail: secretariat@apcdfoundation.info
Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD)
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