Kathleen M. Collins

Ability Profiling and School Failure (eBook, ePUB)

One Child's Struggle to be Seen as Competent

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition situates the book and its case study within current conversations about the contextualized nature of disability, exploring the role of situated literacies, classroom interactions, and social stereotypes in shaping students' identification as "disabled."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136627446
• Artikelnr.: 38269704

Autorenporträt

KATHLEEN M. COLLINS is an Assistant Professor of Language, Culture and Society and Co-Director of the Center for Disability Studies at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. Her program of research aims to identify and interrupt deficit discourses surrounding children who are positioned as struggling with traditional school literacies. Kathleen is the recipient of the 2012 Ellen Brantlinger Junior Scholar Award for outstanding work within Disability Studies in Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Sociocultural Perspectives
on dis/Ability and Positioning Chapter 2 The boy who had something to say
Chapter 3
"He's what I would call out there." Chapter 4 "He was immediate. He was
like immediate." Chapter 5 "Where's the evidence?" Chapter 6 "Jay just
amazes me during this, he really does." Chapter 7 "It will be very, very
difficult for him to learn how to function in the class." Chapter 8 "It's
like a burst, a burst of fire." Chapter 9 "You got to hear this!" Chapter
10 "So who wrote it?" Chapter 11 "Jay, we gotta find you a group."
Chapter 12 "I'm the boy who likes bugs." Chapter 13 "Do you think I'm
proper?" Chapter 14 "This ain't easy!" Chapter 15 "Church is not a game!"
Chapter 16 "I think that's why we became very good friends." Chapter 17 "If
you stick out, you get squashed:" Ability profiling as response to
difference Epilogue Appendix Approaches to Inquiry, Analysis and
Representation