Welcome to the virtual study tour!
The Norwegian Association of Disabled (NAD) Zambia and Enabling Education Network (EENET) welcome you to this virtual study tour of our partnership work with schools, teacher training colleges and communities.
The tour will support your work to develop effective inclusive education teacher training programmes in your context.
You will access reading materials, interactive learning activities, photo, film and audio content, and case studies that explain and illustrate how the participatory teacher training programme in Zambia promotes the inclusion of all learners in schools.
During each section of the tour there will be opportunities for you to participate in quizzes and learning activities.
Whatever your professional role, please engage with every aspect of the tour.
Overview of the tour
At the bottom of this page are links to the 12 sections of the tour. Here is what each section contains:
1. Introduction to the tour: explains the tour’s aims and introduces the NAD Zambia team and some programme settings.
2. Inclusive education awareness: makes sure you have a good understanding of the key concepts underpinning the approach to inclusive education used in the Zambia programme.
3. Training approach – theory: provides information about what makes the approach used in Zambia different from other teacher training programmes.
4. Training approach – principal trainers: provides information about selecting, training and supporting the teams of trainers.
5. Training approach – training workshops: highlights and explains key principles for training and gives you access to the training modules.
6. Training approach – active learning: introduces active learning approaches used throughout the teacher training programme.
7. Embedding inclusion – School Inclusion Teams: explains the role these teams play in developing inclusive education. It is one of three sections explaining how the training approach helps to embed inclusion across the education system.
8. Embedding inclusion – observers: explains how observers monitor and motivate inclusive education.
9. Embedding inclusion – pre-service training: explains how the Zambia programme connects up in-service with pre-service training.
10. Programme planning and management: shares key lessons learned from running the programme in Zambia.
11. The Zambian timeline: summarises the main steps taken in Zambia from the start of the pilot phase.
12. Evaluation: your opportunity to give feedback on the virtual study tour.
A note about this 2025 public edition of the tour
The virtual study tour was first developed in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced a real study tour to be cancelled. It was created to help partners in the Together for Inclusion (TOFI) programme learn from Zambian colleagues’ existing experiences. The approach to inclusive education teacher training that is explained through this study tour has more recently become known as the Inclusive Teaching Component within the Inclusive Learning Approach (ILA). You can learn more about ILA by watching the videos published in 2024.
We only made minor corrections to the virtual study tour before releasing it for general use beyond the TOFI programme. The content therefore reflects the situation in 2020 but nevertheless remains relevant and useful to learn from in 2025 and beyond.
Let’s get started!
