International Conference on Transformative Inclusive Education 2026

Across the world, 250 million children are in school but not learning. Children with disabilities are 42% less likely to acquire foundational literacy and numeracy than their peers. Three decades after the Salamanca Statement committed the world to education for all, the gap between policy and classroom reality remains vast. The reason is not a shortage of commitment. It is a fundamental flaw in how inclusion has been practiced: placing diverse learners into unchanged systems and calling it inclusion. What education systems need is not better accommodation. What they need is transformation of pedagogy, of learning environments, of the assumptions embedded in how we define quality education. TIE 2026 is a response to that need. Organized by Inclusive Education Nepal, the International Conference on Transformative Inclusive Education brings together scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in Kathmandu on December 1 and 2, 2026, to advance the evidence, frameworks, and networks that make genuine inclusion possible. Drawing on Nepal's experience, a country with strong policy commitments and persistent implementation gaps and connecting it to global scholarship on Universal Design for Learning, culturally sustaining pedagogy, and disability rights, the conference asks the question that matters most: not whether inclusive education should happen, but whether our teaching and systems are designed to make it happen for every learner, consistently, equitably, and at scale.