Mccloskey Taking on a Learning Disability

At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61735-788-6
Verlag: Information Age Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 179 Seiten

In the United States, approximately 2.5 million students are diagnosed as having a learning disability and the majority of those children are placed in special education because of an inability to read as expected. As a result of this diagnosis, these children may be placed in special education classrooms classrooms that are separate from the ‘mainstream’ population. For children with learning disabilities, there is likely no place, other than in school, where a student’s inability to read as expected leads to this separation from his/her peers. Once school is over, these children play alongside the kids in their neighborhoods, participate in sports teams, and attend community activities. This book looks at the impact of being labeled as learning disabled and separated from peers in school through the eyes of Samson, a middle school student described both as learning disabled and a nonreader. This qualitative case study explores how Samson, his family, his teachers and this researcher make sense of special education and the complexities of learning to read as an adolescent. Throughout this book, there is a contrasting of the laws and procedures designed to guide special education, with the actual experiences of those impacted by these laws and procedures. Through the three years that Samson was in middle school, this book investigates his perspective on his classes, his interpretation of what it means to ‘be’ a student in special education, and the process by which he learns to read. How disability gets created, contested, and discussed is highlighted through the many contexts that allow disability to be recognized and to fade into the background.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mccloskey, Erin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Half Title;2
3;Taking on aLearning Disability;4
4;Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data;5
5;Contents;8
6;Preface;12
7;Acknowledgements;16
8;Chapter 1: Perspectives and Methods: Learning Disabilities and Adolescent Literacy Learning;18
9;Chapter 2: A Case History of Samson and His Family;32
10;Chapter 3: Doing School and Having it Done to You;60
11;Chapter 4: An Old Disability Improves and a New One is Constructed;90
12;Chapter 5: An Apprenticeship Approach to Adolescent Literacy Learning;106
13;Chapter 6: On Graduation Day;146
14;Appendix A: Data Collection and Timetable;156
15;Appendix B: Transcription Conventions;158
16;Appendix C: Data Analysis Categories and Subcategories;160
17;Notes;162
18;References;164
19;About the Author;170
20;Author Index;172
21;Subject Index;176