Professionalisation of Students with Disabilities into the Teaching Profession in South African Higher Education

Sibonokuhle Ndlovu, Ph.D. (2017), University of the Witwatersrand, is a lecturer at Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, at the University of Johannesburg. She has published numerous articles on disability inclusion in higher education, with focus on students with disabilities, and has edited two book volumes on the topic of disability inclusion and on teaching and learning in higher education.

Preface

Acknowledgements

About the Author



Introduction



1 Disability and Continued Exclusion in the Global South

 1 Introduction

 2 The Global Perspective of Exclusion of Students with Disabilities in Higher Education

 3 Exclusion of Students with Disabilities in South African Higher Education

 4 Education of Students with Disabilities: From Pre- to Post-Apartheid South Africa

 5 Exclusion of Students with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

 6 Positionality of Author



2 The History of Professions

 1 Introduction

 2 What Is a Profession?

 3 Professions and Colonialism

 4 Professions and Knowledge Monopoly

 5 Professions, Gender and Social Class

 6 Professions, Ethics and Moral Principle

 7 Professions and Professional Bodies

 8 Professions and Change

 9 Professions and Disability

 10 Contestation of a Profession in Contemporary South Africa



3 Educate a Teacher, Educate a Nation! The Professional Programme of Education in Higher Education in South Africa

 1 Introduction

 2 The History of the Education Programme in South Africa

 3 Shortage of Teachers in South Africa

 4 Contestation of Education as a Professional Programme

 5 Professional Knowledge

 6 Professional Knowledge in Education

 7 Disciplinary/Subject Matter Knowledge

 8 Pedagogical Knowledge

 9 Situational Knowledge

 10 Fundamental Knowledge

 11 Practical Knowledge

 12 Critique of Professional Knowledge for Education

 13 Professionalisation as a Concept and a Process



4 Policy and Exclusion of Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: Exclusion Starts with the UN Convention to Policy in South Africa

 1 Introduction

 2 The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Disability Inclusion

 3 Steps in the Right Direction: Starting from the Constitution and Legislation

 4 Politics of Policy: Disjuncture between Policy, Practice and Implementation



5 Inclusive Education and Teacher Education in South Africa

 1 Introduction

 2 Perspectives on Inclusive Education

 3 Inclusive Education in Schools

 4 Inclusive Education Programme in Initial Teacher Education

 5 Students with Disabilities and Inclusive Education at the Institution

 6 Decolonisation of Inclusive Education



6 Socialisation into the Teaching Profession: Teachers Who Look for Other Jobs While They Teach!

 1 Introduction

 2 Socialisation into the Teaching Profession

 3 Socialisation as Part of Professionalisation into the Profession

 4 A Teacher in the Classroom Looking for Another Job!

 5 Socialisation, Teacher Identity and Accountability

 6 Lack of Teacher Professionalism and Accountability

 7 Dynamism of the Socialisation Process

 8 Socialisation in Higher Education

 9 Socialisation at the Settings for Integrated Learning

 10 Socialisation of Students with Disabilities into the Teaching Profession

 11 Socialisation and African Indigenous Knowledge



7 Theoretical Framework: Decolonial Theories

 1 Introduction

 2 Coloniality of Being

 3 Coloniality of Power

 4 Coloniality of Knowledge

 5 Decolonisation

 6 Decolonisation of Disability

 7 Decolonisation of Disability Support Services in Higher Education Institutions

 8 The Decolonisation Project

 9 Critical Disability Studies as a Complimentary Theory

 10 Proponents of the Critical Disability Studies

 11 Critical Disability Studies and Critique of Mainstream Disability Conception

 12 CDS and Power Dynamics in the Global South

 13 Critical Disability Studies and Critique of Human Rights

 14 CDS and Shifting from the Dominant Eurocentric View of Disability

 15 Critical Disability Studies and Intersectionality

 16 Critical Disability Studies and Ableism

 17 Systematic Ableism

 18 Institutional Ableism

 19 Ableist Micro-Aggression

 20 Two Eyes Are Better Than One!



8 Professionalisation into the Teaching Profession: Experiences of Students with Disabilities and the Disability Unit Staff Members

 1 Introduction

 2 Opportunities for the Professionalisation of Students with Disabilities

 3 Limiting Professionalisation of Students with Disabilities

 4 Participation in Policy at the Institutional Level

 5 Institutional Transformation



9 Professionalisation of Students with Disabilities at the Integrated Settings of Learning: More Sweat in Training, Less Blood in the Battle !

 1 Introduction

 2 Opportunities for Acquiring Practical Knowledge and Application

 3 Conducive Environment in Mainstream Schools

 4 Teaching Practice during Teaching Experience

 5 Critique of Professionalisation at Settings for Integrated Learning

 6 Intersectionality and Professionalisation

 7 Graduating into the Teaching Profession at the Institution



10 Then Came COVID-19 Impact of the Pandemic on Professionalisation: It Made It Worse for Students with Disabilities

 1 Introduction

 2 Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in South African Higher Education

 3 Exclusion of Students with Disabilities in Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

 4 Experiences of Professionalising Students with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

 5 Institutional Support

 6 Inequitable Access to Pedagogy and Perpetuation of Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

 7 Critique of Professionalisation of Students with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

 8 Ableist Micro-Aggressions towards Students with Disabilities

 9 Interplay of Intersectionality in Professionalisation



11 Putting Heads Together for Solutions: The Way Forward

 1 Introduction

 2 Nothing about Us without Us: Systemic Transformation

 3 Proposition for Transformation by Advocacy at the Institution

 4 Proposition for Improvement in the New Normal by the Academics

 5 Propositions for Improvement: Hospitality of Ideas

 6 Proposition for Hybridity: Policy Issues and Learning from the UK

 7 Decolonisation of the Process of Professionalisation

 8 Professionalisation into the Teaching Profession: Lessons from Germany

 9 Learning from Germany to Improve Inclusive Education in Teacher Education

 10 Universal Design in Learning: Lessons from America

 11 Conclusion



Index