Sigamoney Naicker- Doctor of Education
- University of the Western Cape
Sigamoney Naicker
- Doctor of Education
- University of the Western Cape
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Introduction
How can you have inclusive education in an unequal world?
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Why do so many working-class and vulnerable children struggle in the education system? Education and the Working Class argues that education remains centred on a middle-class narrative that ignores the lived realities of the poor and marginalised. We dissect how a lack of sociological perspective and commitment to social justice has perpetuated an...
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![Educational attainment in the U.S. by race and ethnicity [68].](publication/364321432/figure/tbl2/AS:11431281093012808@1667079265573/Educational-attainment-in-the-US-by-race-and-ethnicity-68_Q320.jpg)
Universities play a crucial role in building the economic development capacity for their communities and regions. Their capacity building role is typically defined by contributions to the economic bottom line of the community and region where a university is located. This kind of capacity building may find itself in conflict with the long-term sust...
This chapter argues that inequality seems to impact on virtually every society in the world. Schools seem to reproduce inequality and in some countries in the world poor communities have been reproduced for over more than a century. It calls for a more egalitarian society that is based on developing programmes that reduce inequality. The chapter co...
This chapter has argued that the blended learning model can be a panacea for addressing the serious challenges facing education authorities universally. Whilst it offers many pedagogical insights and tremendous pedagogical value based on several studies, it fails to provide equal opportunity and economic freedoms, thus leaving the majority of vulne...
Barriers to learning often refer to difficulties encountered by learners in learning processes that result from a wide range of experiences in the classroom, at school, at home, in the community and/or due to health problems, disability or disorder, and/or social insecurity and similar external factors. These factors lead to the inability of the sy...
Very little has been done concerning mass education since it was introduced for working class children in developing and poor countries. Bowles and Gintis (1976) warned us that schools reproduce the status quo. When developed nations plan they plan for the middle class because the middle class are in the majority. Developing countries, following th...
Like most developing countries and some contexts in developed countries, despite innovative and imaginative policy interventions, South Africa’s urban education challenges are concerned with class, race and disability. With more than 20 years of democratic government, global economics, local policy implementation challenges and historical inequalit...
The chapter on special education in South Africa initiates with a very comprehensive historical account of the origins of special education making reference to the inequalities linked to its colonial and racist past to a democratic society. This intriguing section ends with the most recent development in the new democracy form special needs educati...
La inclusión tiene diferentes significados en cada contexto, porque depende de las circunstancias ideológicas, políticas y socieconómicas en las que se desarrolla. El contexto sudáfricano ofrece un caso singular de inclusión, ya que se une al reto de una educación para todos que significa la superación de la situación de años de apartheid. Tras un...
Sigamoney Naicker, a lecturer in Specialized Education in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Western Cape, provides an analysis of specialized education after one year of the first democratic government in South Africa.
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My view is that this is an economic model that intends to use to the test to provide services to the developing world at a cost. It has been noted that Australian (2015) research suggests that these tests are not appropriate and relevant for disadvantaged children. There are also questions about the validity of the tests. The time has come for developing countries to develop their own responses to the specificities of their contexts. Colonialism, racism and exploitation of the poor must stop. We need to create a better world where education is not relegated to economic interests.
There has been an ongoing conversation about SDGs? What is the operational capability departments to implement these goals? Is there a methodology? Or is this a myth to fool the vulnerable?
