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'Suddenly I Was in a Self-Catering World': South African Students with Visual Impairments Reflect on the Transition from Special Schools to Higher Education
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Heidi Lourens; Leslie Swartz – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Although South Africa has numerous impressive policies for inclusion, the unfortunate fact on the ground is that the rhetoric of inclusion is still not reflected in reality. The majority of students with visual impairments are still in special schools where they have to contend with very poor learning conditions. For example, in 2015, 17 out of…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Special Schools, Higher Education, Foreign Countries