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(Un)Learning Disability
Annmarie D. Baines
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Description for (Un)Learning Disability
Series: Disability, Culture, and Equity Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JNLC; JNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Teachers' College Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
Number of Pages
192
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780807755761
SKU
V9780807755761
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About Annmarie D. Baines
AnnMarie Darrow Baines is an assistant professor in the department of secondary education at San Francisco State University.
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