The next SOTL @ UJ seminar will be on Thursday 21 August at 1.00 pm at the Library Commons 2.
Title: Inclusion in Higher Education: A quest for epistemic access.
Biography
Dr Tsediso
Michael Makoelle, has obtained D Ed from Unisa, South Africa and PhD in
Inclusive Education from University of Manchester, UK. He has published and
presented a combined total of 50 research pieces which include conference
papers, journal articles, books and book chapters in Inclusive Education to
both national and international audience and readership. He is currently a
Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education in the Department of Educational
Psychology at University of Johannesburg. He teachers Inclusive Education to
both undergraduates and postgraduates and supervises Masters and Doctoral
students in the field. His research interest are philosophy of inclusion and
pedagogy of inclusion informed by Critical Pedagogy, Structuration Theory and
Critical Realism.
Abstract
In this presentation
I focus on the notion of inclusion in higher education. The concept of
inclusion is deconstructed from the view of those excluded using the framework
of Critical Pedagogy and Structuration Theory. The relationship between
epistemology and inclusion is highlighted by drawing a comparative theoretical
contrast between positivist, behaviorist and post-positivist, constructivist
conceptions of knowing and how this relates to inclusion or exclusion and
epistemic access within the pedagogic practice. Drawing from Bernstein
knowledge discourses I demonstrate how knowledge economy is manipulated to withhold
epistemic tools for access to knowledge. Furthermore I analyze from a social
justice perspective the implications of such for cognitive justice and
indigenous knowledge epistemologies. The presentation further disentangles through a Critical Realist lens the notion of inclusion by unmasking the
empirical conceptions and the underlying generative mechanisms. The
presentation concludes by making theoretical suggestions for developing an
enabling pedagogy, employing transformative epistemology and dealing with underlying
relational exclusive mechanisms.
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