Creating a Sustainable Learning Environment for Teaching and Learning: Honouring the Legacy of Sechaba Mahlomaholo
Sibonokuhle Ndlovu 
Issue: Vol.6 No. 1 January 2025 Special Issue Article 10 pp. 139 – 150
DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/jelt.20256110 | Published online 13th May, 2025.
© 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Using literature from his own works and underpinned by the Social Justice Theory, the paper presented and discussed Sechaba Mahlomaholo creation of sustainable environment for teaching and learning by the marginalised at all levels of education. While Sechaba focused on the marginalised his work did not specifically make specific reference to creating a sustainable teaching and learning for students with disabilities in the context of higher education, who also belong to the category of the marginal however due to impairment related disadvantaged, their learning needs are different and unique from the other marginalised, warranting a specific focus on creating a sustainable teaching and learning environment specifically designed for them as ‘special’ category. The aim of the present paper was to therefore to present Sechaba’s work in terms of working towards achieving and attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) of providing quality education to all and lifelong learning and also provide further discussion of creation of sustainable teaching and learning for students with disabilities in the context of South African higher education, working towards also achieving SDG5 related specifically to persons with disabilities. The purpose of so doing was to honor Sechaba and also extend his legacy to include students with disabilities in his work of creating sustainable teaching and learning for a ‘special’ marginal social group, which his seminal work had overlooked.
Keywords: Social Justice Theory, Students with Disabilities, Higher Education, Teaching and Learning
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Dr Sibonokuhle Ndlovu is a lecturer at Ali Mazrui’s Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed publications and has presented her work at national and international conferences. She holds a PhD in Inclusive Education from Wits School of Education and a Master’s in Education degree, with First Class (Cum Laude) from the University of Cape Town. She is a recipient of the University of Johannesburg certificate of excellence award for outstanding achievement in research and academic citizenship in the postdoctoral research programme in 2019. She is the lead editor of the book, Social, Educational, and Cultural Perspectives of Disabilities in the Global South (2021), published by IGI Global publishers and a core-editor of the book, Transformative curricular, pedagogies and epistemologies (2021) published by Brill Publishers. She is the sole author of the book, Professionalisation of students with disabilities into the teaching profession: Affordances and challenges, published by Brill (2024). Areas of interest include Disability in higher education, Disability and gender in the Global South, Teaching and Learning of students with disabilities in higher education, Disability and policy in higher education, Decolonisation and disability, Disability and rurality.
Ndlovu, Sibonokuhle. “Creating a Sustainable Learning Environment for Teaching and Learning: Honouring the Legacy of Sechaba Mahlomaholo.” Journal of Education and Learning Technology 6, no.1 (2025): 139 – 150. https://doi.org/10.38159/jelt.20256110
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