Browsing by Author "Henkeman, Thandi"

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    TEDI 4 Week 2 - TEDI Research: Lifelong Learning
    (2019-06-01) Henkeman, Thandi
    In this video, Thandi Henkeman (the project manager for the Teacher Empowerment for Disability Inclusion (TEDI) project), discusses a pilot project looking into the attitudes of people involved in teacher facilitation around disability inclusion. She discusses that despite the commitments in the South African constitution, children with disabilities are still often excluded from living a free and productive life. She discusses the role and mandate of the TEDI project, focusing on the teacher training course named the 'Education and care of learners with severe to profound intellectual disability'. The courses focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of care and inclusion of children with intellectual disabilities in the classroom. She then shares key findings from the data collected from the course participants, including what challenges the participants identified, such as the knowledge and skills they have and their attitudes towards children with disabilities.
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    TEDI 4 Week 4 - TEDI research
    (2019-06-01) Henkeman, Thandi
    In this video, Thandi Henkeman discusses the four core themes that emerged from research conducted with the students of the TEDI face-to-face course, namely 1) advocacy, 2) collaboration, 3) developing relationships with learners with severe to profound intellectual disability, and 4) self-care. She discusses the four main themes and the main findings that emerged from interviews and research with the students on the TEDI course.
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    TEDI 4 Week 4 - Voice of inclusion
    (2019-06-01) Henkeman, Thandi
    In this video, Thandi Henkeman rounds up the discussion on disability inclusion in the TEDI-4 MOOC. Thandi summarises the findings of the World Health Organisation's findings on disability and the ways in which disability impairs people from enjoying full human rights in current society. She outlines the main goals and principles of the Convention for the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) and discusses them with specific relation to individuals with severe to profound intellectual disability. She summarises the social and medical models of disability, and the importance of a rights-based approach to disability that attempts to maximise the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in society. She concludes with explaining how individuals can contribute to disability inclusion, starting with extensive dialogue, followed by widespread educational opportunities, followed by supporting and education families, then the importance of supporting self-determination, and finally the importance of disability advocacy.