All Outputs (30)

Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach (2023)
Journal Article

This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3-year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges children with disabilities an... Read More about Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach.

Refugee education: A critical visual analysis (2023)
Journal Article

Refugee education has become an issue of national and international concern as the numbers of refugees rise globally. In a world where global issues such as forced migration are communicated and consumed through the visual mode, understanding how dis... Read More about Refugee education: A critical visual analysis.

Why inclusive education falters: a Bernsteinian analysis (2023)
Journal Article

The inclusive education policy agenda has not made a significant impact on the global problem of educational exclusion. Explanations for this lack of impact include inadequate teacher education, lack of resources, negative attitudes, and a policy-pra... Read More about Why inclusive education falters: a Bernsteinian analysis.

Disabled Refugees Included and Visible in Education (DRIVE): Blogs (2022)
Digital Artefact

Disability studies in education and intersectionality (2022)
Book Chapter

Disabled Refugees Included and Visible in Education (DRIVE): case reports: South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe (2022)
Report

Contents: Disabled refugees students included and visible in education: challenges and opportunities in three African countries: South Africa case report / Nicole De-Wet Billings, Khuthala Mabetha -- Disabled refugees students included and visible in... Read More about Disabled Refugees Included and Visible in Education (DRIVE): case reports: South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Pedagogical Responsiveness in Complex Contexts (2022)
Book Chapter

Responsiveness and complexity are familiar terms in pandemic times. When applied to education, they take on particular meanings separately and in combination. This chapter shows education complexified by a number of factors, including governance and... Read More about Pedagogical Responsiveness in Complex Contexts.

Conclusion: Pedagogical Responsiveness for Global Futures (2022)
Book Chapter

This concluding chapter draws together ideas from the book and opens provocations for thinking towards shared global futures. These futures are shown to be complex, requiring pedagogies that are responsive by being both reactive and anticipatory. The... Read More about Conclusion: Pedagogical Responsiveness for Global Futures.

Pre-service teachers’ experiences of schooling: Implications for preparation for inclusive education (2022)
Journal Article

Teacher educators in South Africa face challenges of preparing new teachers for an inclusive education system that has been accepted as policy but is not yet fully realised in school contexts. Pre-service teachers entering teacher preparation program... Read More about Pre-service teachers’ experiences of schooling: Implications for preparation for inclusive education.

Inclusive education in South Africa: path dependencies and emergences (2022)
Journal Article

Inclusive education is a fundamental right of all students. Despite international policy initiatives, educational exclusion is pervasive, especially in the Global South, and disproportionately affects disabled students. Barriers to inclusive educatio... Read More about Inclusive education in South Africa: path dependencies and emergences.

Challenges arising from the special education legacy in Russia and South Africa: a cross-case analysis (2021)
Journal Article

The pursuit of inclusive education in different countries is shaped by the extent and the nature of existing special educational provisions. We focus on two authoritarian regimes in the previous century: Soviet Russia (USSR) with its ideology of clas... Read More about Challenges arising from the special education legacy in Russia and South Africa: a cross-case analysis.

Revisiting (inclusive) education in the postcolony (2021)
Journal Article

This article uses a dialogic approach to explore the complex state of education in the postcolony. It revisits the subject of educational inclusion (and exclusion) and interrogates different epistemological and systemic framings of what constitutes e... Read More about Revisiting (inclusive) education in the postcolony.

Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis (2020)
Journal Article

Inclusive education is a global rights-based response to educational exclusion. It is communicated through a range of modalities, but analysis predominantly focuses on discourses constituted in written texts. Systematic research is needed to understa... Read More about Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis.

Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
Journal Article

International conventions acknowledge the right of refugees and of disabled people to access quality inclusive education. Both groups struggle to assert this right, particularly in the Global South, where educational access may be hindered by system... Read More about Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The education of children with disabilities in South African online news reports (2020)
Book Chapter

Many disabled children are not attending schools in South Africa, despite policies that promote inclusive education. Quite often, online news articles (re)visit this topic. Using a critical literacy approach, and informed by critical disability studi... Read More about The education of children with disabilities in South African online news reports.

Cumulative knowledge-building for inclusive education in initial teacher education (2019)
Journal Article

Initial teacher education must respond to the demand that newly qualified teachers are able to teach inclusively. This response has been the creation of opportunities for learning in coursework and field experiences. Research has identified the impac... Read More about Cumulative knowledge-building for inclusive education in initial teacher education.

Developing standards for inclusive teaching in South Africa: a dilemma analysis (2019)
Journal Article

As inclusive education has gained traction internationally, there has been a demand for teachers who are equipped to teach diverse learners. This has led to attempts to capture the competences of inclusive teachers in scholarly literature and in the... Read More about Developing standards for inclusive teaching in South Africa: a dilemma analysis.

Constraints to the implementation of inclusive teaching: a cultural historical activity theory approach (2019)
Journal Article

Learners who experience learning challenges are at risk of not accessing equitable education opportunities in South African schools. This is despite teacher education and system reform initiatives towards more inclusive education. To discover what co... Read More about Constraints to the implementation of inclusive teaching: a cultural historical activity theory approach.

What matters in learning communities for inclusive education: a cross-case analysis (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 International Professional Development Association (IPDA). Implementing inclusive education requires on-going commitment to teachers’ professional learning. One way of implementing professional learning is to develop learning communities based... Read More about What matters in learning communities for inclusive education: a cross-case analysis.

Decolonising (through) inclusive education? (2018)
Journal Article

Inclusive education seeks to reduce exclusion from and within schools, and to secure participation and learning success for all. Its origins are in countries of the Global North, and countries of the Global South, like South Africa, have been relativ... Read More about Decolonising (through) inclusive education?.