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S2 Ep3: Interview with Tariq Ahsan

25m · Inclusion Dialogue · 25 Nov 05:00

Professor Dr. M. Tariq Ahsan has been working at the Institute of Education and Research of University of Dhaka since 2001. Tariq did his PhD in 2015 at Monash University, Australia on teacher preparation for inclusive education. Tariq has vast experience in the areas of equity and inclusion, ECCD, Education in Emergency, Adolescent Skill for the 21st Century and National Curriculum Framework Development. Tariq conducted a significant number of researches and published more than 100 papers in the forms of national and international journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and reports. He is the Secretary General of the “Asian Centre for Inclusive Education” and founding editor of “Asian Journal of Inclusive Education”. Dr. Ahsan received Australian Government’s “Australian Alumni Excellence Awards 2014”; Venus International Research Award 2017 from Chennai, India and Jiddu Krishnamurti Awards 2018 from the Annapurna Memorial College of Education & Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India for his contributions.

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