Post-School Education and Training: Anticipatory Support - Students with Disabilities

Prof. O.N.Makhubela-Nkondo UNISAProf. P. Lenka-Bula UNISAMrs. N. Jobodwana UNISA

CONSENSUS

UNIVERSALLY EDUCATORS TESTIFY TO ENABLING TECHNOLOGY’S CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Mainstream social participation

QUALITY OF Natural

PersonalSocio-

cultural

FRAMEWORK FOR EXPLANATION

Sociohistorical context

Critical social science

Social Modeling

STUDENT DILEMMA

• BEING DIFFERENT• USE ONESELF AS A MODEL• IF DIFFERENT THEN THERE IS

SOMETHING WRONG

ALIENATION FROM HUMAN CAPABILITIES

REGULAR STUDENTS & STUDENTS WITH DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF DISABILITIES

Regular StudentsDisability ADisability BDisability C

METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

• At an empirical level certain technical interventions have to be done:

Teach that there is a different way of being humanHow do we teach attitudes through technology Which devices to be used; if its social media -do majority of educators/learners/administrators

take social media seriously?

Prospective Study - intervene - barrier-free design TECHNOLOGY

COUNTERBALANCE

ENABLING REGULATORY

ENVIRONMENT

PROSPECTIVE RESEARCH

• Look at changes in attitudes, as determined by how good or poor the attitude is to deal with problems such as student’s “alienation from human capabilities”

PROSPECTIVE RESEARCH

• Students successfully realizing the technologies in question & remove barriers for non-enablers to release potential energy

PROSPECTIVE RESEARCH

• Enabling regulatory environment“technologies is the quality of the

natural, personal, sociocultural world in which the people involved will have to live in order to successfully realize the technologies in question”

CONCLUSION• Technology is not enough• Technical limitations such as

tech. illiteracy• ExpenseAttitudesBehaviour

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