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  • Addressing barriers to learning - A South African perspective 4/e
  • Landsberg E, Krüger D, Swart E
  • ISBN: 9780627036491
  • eISBN: N/A
  • ePub ISBN: 9780627036507
  • 624 Pages | Published: 2019

Everyone has the right to education. The main objective of any education system in a democratic society is to provide   quality education for all learners, including those with physical, mental and socioeconomic challenges, so that they will be able to reach their full potential and contribute meaningfully to society throughout their lives. With the publication of the Education White Paper 6 in 2001, South Africa proclaimed its policy of inclusive education; however, this policy is not   always clearly understood by educators. Addressing barriers to learning provides relevant and in-depth knowledge to prepare educators to teach all the learners in their class groups to the best of their ability.

Addressing barriers to learning covers the complete continuum of barriers to learning as reflected in Education White Paper 6, including the most vulnerable of them: those who are economically and educationally disadvantaged; those with physical, sensory, intellectual, and/or learning impairment; those who are subjected to xenophobic behaviour and those displaying challenging behaviour who are at risk of exclusion. This latest edition also includes a new section on discrimination and sociocultural injustice towards LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex) learners. Case studies offer practical examples and activities provide opportunities for hands-on experience with classroom practice and management, collaboration with all role players and mobilisation of community involvement, which is at the heart of true inclusion.

Addressing barriers to learning is aimed at both prospective and current educators and other support professionals, including psychologists and therapists.

The three editors, Emmerentia Landsberg, Deirdré Krüger and Estelle Swart, are acknowledged and experienced academics and practitioners in the field of inclusive education and accommodating diversity in inclusive classrooms.

 

 

SECTION A INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 A framework for understanding inclusion

Chapter 2 Legal and ethical considerations for barrier-free education

 

SECTION B ADDRESSING SOCIOECONOMIC BARRIERS

Chapter 3 Socioeconomic barriers to learning

 

SECTION C ADDRESSING EDUCATIONAL BARRIERS

Chapter 4 Identification and assessment of barriers to learning

Chapter 5 Learning support 

Chapter 6 Early childhood development and intervention 

Chapter 7 Addressing life skills challenges

 

SECTION D ADDRESSING LITERACY BARRIERS

Chapter 8 First language: challenges in spoken language 

Chapter 9 Literacy: challenges in reading, writing and spelling 

Chapter 10 Second-language difficulties in a South African context

Chapter 11 Augmentative and alternative communication 

Chapter 12 Challenges in mathematics: mathematical literacy and numeracy

 

SECTION E ADDRESSING ATTITUDE BARRIERS

Chapter 13 Family and community partnerships 

Chapter 14 Xenophobia

 

SECTION F ADDRESSING DISABILITY

Chapter 15 Orientation: neurology in an educational perspective

Chapter 16 Physical impairment 

Chapter 17 Epilepsy 

Chapter 18 Cerebral palsy

Chapter 19 Skeletal and muscular impairment 

Chapter 20 Autism spectrum disorder 

Chapter 21 Visual impairment 

Chapter 22 Educating the deaf and hard-of-hearing learner

Chapter 23 Learning impairment and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) 

Chapter 24 Intellectual impairment

Chapter 25 Severe disabilities

 

SECTION G ADDRESSING HEALTH IMPAIRMENT

Chapter 26 Health impairments and conditions in children

 

SECTION H ADDRESSING CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR

Chapter 27 Addressing challenging behaviour in the classroom

 

SECTION I ADDRESSING GIFTEDNESS

Chapter 28 Addressing giftedness

 

 

 

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