Our highly acclaimed discipline of Educational Psychology houses both Educational Psychology and Inclusive Education sub-disciplines. Firstly, we expose our undergraduate and postgraduate students to theoretical underpinnings of human behaviour, learning and development and provide space for postgraduate students to conduct cutting edge research in the discipline. Secondly, we raise awareness regarding the debates around the shift in emphasis from ‘special needs’ to ‘addressing barriers to learning and development in school, community and society’ with a view to achieving inclusive teaching. Theoretical underpinnings of this shift are interrogated, including conceptualisations in recent policy documents in South Africa and the world. Students are required to explore interventions aimed at increasing the participation of those learners who are marginalized on account of difference from the culture and curriculum of the school.

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