Affiliation:
1. University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstract
This chapter presents physical barriers, lack of adequate funding, poor supervision, delay in feedback, communication difficulties, negative attitudes, and impairment-related disadvantages as the unique challenges confronted by students with disabilities when doing research in higher education in South Africa. Data were collected through scanning South African and international literature available on Google scholar, ProQuest, in books, journal articles, and online resources. Informed by decolonial theory, the invisible underlying causes of the challenges are discussed. Suitable assistive devices, listening to students with disabilities' voices, and more time allocation are suggested as strategies that could improve research engagement for students with disabilities.
Reference55 articles.
1. Challenges and strategies of research engagement among Master of Education students in Uganda.;D. Z.Atibuni;International Journal of Educational Policy Research and Review,2017
2. Badat, S. (2015). Deciphering the meanings and explaining the South African higher education students protests of 2015-16. Pax Academica African Journal of Academic Freedom, 1& 2, 71-106.
3. Ballim, Y. (2015). Reflections on “epistemological access” and the analytical frameworks that may guide institutional responses to student learning in South African higher education. Unpublished.
4. Higher Education in South Africa - A scholarly look behind the scenes
5. The role of instructional design in assistive technology research and development