Exploring Experiences of University Students with Learning Disabilities: Shaping Student Engagement in South Africa (Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education) - Hardcover

Manase, Ndakaitei

 
9781350351936: Exploring Experiences of University Students with Learning Disabilities: Shaping Student Engagement in South Africa (Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1350351938 ISBN 13: 9781350351936
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

This book examines the experiences of students with learning disabilities in South African higher education, exploring the different factors that shape students’ university engagements. Students’ experiences, gathered through semi-structured interviews, are analysed within the Capability Approach to assess the way social arrangements influence students with learning disabilities’ academic engagements. The book then discusses the ways universities can foster opportunities that contribute to students’ multi-dimensional achievements for their academic and general wellbeing. The book exposes inequalities in higher education that impact students with learning disabilities who often operate in inflexible educational systems, practices and standardised learning outcomes that do not take into account the unique ways by which students with learning disabilities process information. The book sheds light on the educational trajectories and conditions which students with learning disabilities operate in.

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About the Authors

Ndakaitei Manase is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of South Africa, South Africa.

Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University, UK.

Manja Klemencic is Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology and General Education in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA and Visiting Professor of Higher Education at Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is Co-Editor of the book series Understanding Student Experiences in Higher Education (Bloomsbury), Co-Editor of Higher Education Dynamics and Joint Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Higher Education.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1350351938
ISBN 13 
9781350351936
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
168