Department of Inclusive Education

Dr IL Mkhuma

College of Education
School of Educational Studies
Department: Inclusive Education
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 012 484 1034
E-mail: mkhumi@unisa.ac.za

Expertise

  • Disability and Post-school learning
  • Quadriplegic learners

Qualifications

  • PhD, Inclusive Education
  • Med in Inclusive Education
  • Honours Bed in Inclusive education
  • Secondary Teachers’ Diploma (STD)

Currently teaching

  • ETH306W
  • INC4804

Fields of academic interests

  • Disability in Higher education
  • School-to-work transitional programmes for learners with intellectual impairments
  • Inclusive Education and social transformation

Field of Specialisation

  • Inclusive Education

Journal articles

Mkhuma, I. L., Maseko, N. & Tlale, L. D. K. (2014) Challenges Teachers Face in Identifying Learners Who Experience Barriers to Learning: Reflection on Essential Support Structures. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 5(27). DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n27p444

Paper presentations

  1. 2019 - 4th Open Distance Learning Conference in Namibia: oral presentation, Research Paper presentation
  2. 2019 - African Regional ISSBD Workshop in Harare, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Poster presentation
  3. 2019 - UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning, UNISA conference in Pretoria,
  4. 2014 - University of Shanghai, Modern City of China, 23rd Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Poster Presentation
  5. The disability conference hosted by the Department of Inclusive Education on the 18th March 2015 in UNISA, Pretoria.
  6. 2013 -The 10th African Regional Conference held in UNISA, Pretoria

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Member of the International Society for the study of behavioral Development (since 2013)
  • Winner of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial National Teachers’ Awards in section of Inclusive Education (2015)

Projects

Initiator and Coordinator of the Transition of learners with intellectual and learning impairments from a special school to the world of work project ( project code:CN5800, College of Education)

Other

Former teacher in Primary schools, Secondary, High schools, Full-Service School, face-to-face contract tutor (UNISA) and a Departmental Head in a Special School