(Un)Learning Disability: Recognizing and Changing Restrictive Views of Student Ability

by AnnMarie Darrow Baines

Book Overview

How do high school students confront and resolve conflicting messages about their intelligence and academic potential, particularly when labeled 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 and at school, the author makes visible the disabling language, contextual arrangements,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807755362
• ISBN13: 9780807755365
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"