'Every Now and Then You Slip up and Then You Are in Trouble': The Responsibility on Students with Visual Impairments to Access Reasonable Accommodations in South Africa

Autor/inn/en	Lourens, Heidi; Swartz, Leslie
Titel	'Every Now and Then You Slip up and Then You Are in Trouble': The Responsibility on Students with Visual Impairments to Access Reasonable Accommodations in South Africa
Quelle	In: International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 67 (2020) 3, S.320-335 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Swartz, Leslie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1034-912X
DOI	10.1080/1034912X.2019.1587152
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Student Responsibility; Visual Impairments; Academic Accommodations (Disabilities); College Students; Blacks; Racial Segregation; Students with Disabilities; Inclusion; College Faculty; Teacher Student Relationship; Disadvantaged; Student Experience; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Visual handicap; Sehbehinderung; Collegestudent; Black person; Schwarzer; Rassentrennung; Student; Students; Disability; Disabilities; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Behinderung; Inklusion; Fakultät; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Studienerfahrung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Within the last two decades, the South African government drafted impressive policies to fully include and accommodate students with visual impairments within higher education. However, in interviews with 23 students with visual impairments at two South African universities, we found that legislation has yet to fully permeate the embodied experiences of these students. Despite stringent policies, lecturers still have the power to decide whether they want to accommodate students with reasonable requests. Second, students carry a tremendous amount of responsibility in procuring reasonable accommodations. Third, the Apartheid regime that left many marginalised groups impoverished still disadvantages some Black students with visual impairments. We suggest that students and lecturers might benefit from clear guidelines regarding their roles and responsibilities. Students should also receive information regarding their legal rights. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01