Achieving disability inclusive employment – Are the current approaches deep enough?

Are Saddles Good Enough for Deep Learning?

Recent years have seen a growing interest in understanding deep neural networks from an optimization perspective. It is understood now that converging to low-cost local minima is sufficient for such models to become effective in practice. However, in this work, we propose a new hypothesis based on recent theoretical findings and empirical studies that deep neural network models actually converg...

Achieving Inclusive Agricultural Growth

Ghana is to achieve the goal of becoming a middle income country by 2015. Despite its impressive progress in economic growth and poverty reduction, Ghana—like many other African countries—has had rather limited success in increasing smallholder agricultural production by enhancing productivity and competitiveness. Why? Like other countries, Ghana has to meet three challenges in selecting and im...

International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability: Disability Inclusive Development and International Development Cooperation

The adoption of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a historical momentum for disabled persons and their associates, as well as ODA workers in the development cooperation field all over the world. For the last two decades, persons with disabilities, their associates and professionals working in this field have promoted their human rights, equality, nondisc...

Conducting and Benchmarking Inclusive Employment Policies, Practices, and Culture by the Disability Case Study Research Consortium

Equal is not Enough - Current Issues in Inclusive Education in the Eyes of Children

The sociology of childhood opens up new perspectives on inclusive practices, as it considers children themselves as actors in their environment. The author aims at expanding this notion to children with special educational needs whose agency often goes unrecognized. At first, this article will clarify notions of inclusive education and special educational needs, and then analyze children’s agen...