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.
- ISBN10 080775515X
- ISBN13 9780807755150
- Publish Date 30 April 2014
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 23 December 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Teachers' College Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English