Start with the purpose of the inquiry. This chapter connects the problem of access and support to a bounded investigation of inclusive practices in Limpopo’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training colleges.
The literature chapter places the Limpopo inquiry within a wider discussion of vocational education, disability and access. It moves between international examples, the South African setting and the barriers that can…
This chapter explains the conceptual lenses used in the inquiry. It brings the social model of disability into conversation with Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems perspective, while discussing other approaches…
The methods chapter provides the route from a question to an interpretation. It explains the qualitative, interpretive multiple-case design and the choices used to build a contextual account of inclusive practices.
This chapter brings the study’s evidence into a thematic account. Read each theme together with the participant roles, college context and evidence source. The chapter is not a dashboard of national performance.
The final chapter draws the thesis together, discusses implications and introduces the All-inclusive Student Assistive model, or AISA. It also states the limits of the inquiry and identifies directions for further…
Explore the student-centred relationships in Figure 6.1. This is a website interpretation of a model proposed in the thesis, rather than a sequence of steps or an evaluated assessment tool.
Look at the task and its setting together. Instructions, language, representation, response routes, resources and support can all affect participation.
An arrangement in equal rows and columns that makes grouping and multiplication relationships visible. Specify what each row, column and individual object represents.
A condition that restricts access, participation or learning. Barriers can arise through the interaction of a learner’s circumstances with tasks, environments and systems.
The quantity of a collection. In counting, the cardinality principle means understanding that the final number word tells how many objects the whole collection contains.
Adapting content, teaching processes, responses or the learning environment to respond to learners’ needs. State the intended learning and the reason for each adaptation.
The South African schooling phase comprising Grade R and Grades 1–3. Early language, mathematical and other foundational learning develops across this phase.
A number that can describe equal parts of a specified whole. The denominator names the size of the equal parts; the numerator counts how many of those parts.