Exploring Experiences of University Students with Learning Disabilitie - Shaping Student Engagement in South Africa

The book focuses on students'' experiences of learning with a learning disability, beginning by examining different factors that shape students'' university engagements in South Africa. Students'' experiences, gathered through semi-structured interviews, are analysed within the Capability Approach to assess the way social arrangements influence students with learning disabilities'' academic engagements. The book then explores ways universities can foster opportunities that contribute to the achievement of students'' multi-dimensional achievements for their academic and general wellbeing. The book exposes inequalities in higher education that impact students with learning disabilities who often operate in inflexible educational systems, practices and standardised learning outcomes that consider less the unique ways by which students with learning disabilities process information. The book sheds light on the educational trajectories and conditions which students with learning disabilities operate in.>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Theorising students with disabilities' university engagements: The Capability Approach
2. Understanding Learning Disabilities
3. The Status of Learning Disabilities in Higher Education
4. Education and Disability in South Africa
5. Disability and Inclusivity in Higher Education
6. Supporting University Students with Learning Disabilities
7. Capabilities and Functionings for University Students with Learning Disabilities
8. The World of Work Realities and Imaginings of University Students with Learning Disabilities
9. Conclusion
References

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ndakaitei Manase is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of South Africa, South Africa.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ndakaitei Manase
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9781350351936
• ISBN: 978-1-350-35193-6
• Seiten: 168
• Abmessung: 154 mm x 236 mm x 16 mm
• Serie: Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Bildungswesen; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, EDUCATION / Special Education / Learning Disabilities, Republic of South Africa, Teaching of students with learning difficulties, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher