Exploring experiences of university students with learning disabilities : shaping student engagement in South Africa / Ndakaitei Manase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manase, Ndakaitei, author.

Series:

Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education.

Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities Education (Higher)--South Africa.

People with disabilities Education (Higher).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book examines the experiences of students with learning disabilities in South African higher education, exploring the different factors that shape students' university engagements. 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 discusses the ways universities can foster opportunities that contribute to 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 do not take into account 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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

Series Editors' Foreword

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Theoretical Perspectives on Disability

3 Education and Disability in South Africa: Challenges and Progress on Inclusive Higher Education

4 The Capability Approach and Its Applicability to Disability in Higher Education

5 Methodological Account

6 Learning Disabilities in Higher Education: Students' Experiences and Lecturers' Concerns

7 Institutional Social Arrangements for Students with Learning Disabilities

8 Conversion Factors That Influence the University Experiences of Students with Learning Disabilities

9 Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350351967

1350351962

9781350351943

1350351946

9781350351950

1350351954

OCLC:

1499718828