Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Recognizing and Changing Restrictive Views of Student Ability
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Reihe: Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
ISBN: 978-0-8077-5576-1
Verlag: Teachers College Press
How do high school students confront and resolve conflicting messages about their intelligence and academic potential, particularly when labelled with social and learning disabilities? How does disability become “disablement” when negative attitudes and disparaging perceptions of ability position students as outsiders? Following the lives of adolescents at home as well as in and out of school, the author makes visible the disabling language, contextual arrangements, and unconscious social practices that restrict learning regardless of special education services. She also showcases how young people resist disablement to transform their worlds and pursue pathways most important to them. Educators can use this important resource to recognise and change disabling practices that are often taken for granted as a natural part of schooling.
