Product Description
Addressing Barriers to Learning – A South African Perspective (4th edition)
Authors: E Landsberg, D Krüger, E Swart
Format: Physical Hardcopy
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.
Contents:
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SECTION A INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 A framework for understanding inclusion Chapter 2 Legal and ethical considerations for barrier-free education
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SECTION B ADDRESSING SOCIOECONOMIC BARRIERS Chapter 3 Socioeconomic barriers to learning
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SECTION C ADDRESSING EDUCATIONAL BARRIERS
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Chapter 4 Identification and assessment of barriers to learning
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Chapter 5 Learning support
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Chapter 6 Early childhood development and intervention
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Chapter 7 Addressing life skills challenges
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SECTION D ADDRESSING LITERACY BARRIERS
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Chapter 8 First language: challenges in spoken language
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Chapter 9 Literacy: challenges in reading, writing and spelling
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Chapter 10 Second-language difficulties in a South African context
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Chapter 11 Augmentative and alternative communication
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Chapter 12 Challenges in mathematics: mathematical literacy and numeracy
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SECTION E ADDRESSING ATTITUDE BARRIERS Chapter 13 Family and community partnerships Chapter 14 Xenophobia
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SECTION F ADDRESSING DISABILITY
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Chapter 15 Orientation: neurology in an educational perspective
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Chapter 16 Physical impairment
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Chapter 17 Epilepsy
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Chapter 18 Cerebral palsy
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Chapter 19 Skeletal and muscular impairment
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Chapter 20 Autism spectrum disorder
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Chapter 21 Visual impairment
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Chapter 22 Educating the deaf and hard-of-hearing learner
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Chapter 23 Learning impairment and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
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Chapter 24 Intellectual impairment
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Chapter 25 Severe disabilities
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SECTION G ADDRESSING HEALTH IMPAIRMENT Chapter 26 Health impairments and conditions in children
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SECTION H ADDRESSING CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR Chapter 27 Addressing challenging behaviour in the classroom
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SECTION I ADDRESSING GIFTEDNESS Chapter 28 Addressing giftedness
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