| Title | Advocating for Children with Special Needs |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Interview with Ingy Mashhour |
| Contributor | Linda Herrera (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0489.08 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0489/chapters/10.11647/obp.0489.08 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Linda Herrera |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2025-11-17 |
| Long abstract | The Minister of Education’s Advisor for Special Needs Education Ingy Mashhour (2017-2022) discusses three key milestones of the Education 2.0 reform: the development of a new curriculum framework for children with intellectual disabilities; teacher guides for students with sensory impairments; and the launch of the Tenth of Ramadan Center for the Rehabilitation of People with Special Needs in 2019. These initiatives were developed as the Egyptian state integrated inclusive education and the needs of children with disabilities into state policies and laws. Changes on the ground, however, have been harder to achieve, and parents seem to not have confidence that the education system can adequately attend to the special needs of their children. |
| Page range | pp. 147–158 |
| Print length | 12 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Linda Herrera is Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership in the Global Studies in Education program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was director of the Education 2.0 Research and Documentation Project in Egypt and served as an international education advisor. A social anthropologist with expertise in the Middle East and North Africa, her research and teaching cover a range of areas including education and power, youth studies, citizenship education and critical democracy, technology and society, and international education development. Her books include, Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles (American University in Cairo Press, 2022), Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (with A. Bayat, University of California Press, 2021), Revolution in the Age of Social Media (Verso, 2014), Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East (Routledge, 2014), Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (with A. Bayat, Oxford University Press, 2010), and Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt (with C. A. Torres, State University of New York Press, 2006).