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Summary:

"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"--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Educational positioning and the damage to youth potential : Disabled academic identities ; Social context of disability ; Cross-context ethnography ; Organization of book
• Positioning and the Production of Disabled Identities. Interlude : The water boy
• Social processes of disablement : Academic failure : who is to blame? ; Social impact on students' lives and identities ; The power of self-determination
• Ability and the power of personal agency : Developing agency and expanding possibilities ; Tinsley and school ; Different places, different powers, different stakes ; The threat of disablement
• Disabling Practices and Youth Resistance. Interlude : A mother's tale
• Stereotypes and restricted trajectories of learning : Spencer on probation ; The shadow of personal histories ; Disidentification with school ; Hidden curriculum : race and gender stereotypes ; Devin : smart and black ; Resisting disabling practices
• Images of disability and conflicting identities : Identities in motion ; James in the Ghillie suit ; Positioning and disability ; Mark : "I used to be autistic, but not anymore" ; Supporting an academic identity ; Student relationships with disability labels ; Summary : patterns of youth resistance
• The Power to Reposition Youth. Interlude : Impromptu
• Pride and possibility in schools : Setting the stage : stepping into pathways ; Flexible school structures and student perceptions ; Colby Simpson : coming back to life ; Mentorship at the music workshop ; Accessibility and capabilities
• Supporting ability development in classrooms : An ability-oriented mindset for teaching ; Student-informed teaching : a matrix for accommodations and assessments ; Active and supported participation : planning for barriers and opportunities ; Developing strengths and goals : a reflection and documentation grid ; Flexible ideas about abilities and intelligence
• Youth leadership and transformative teams : Ana at debate camp : "Everyone gets to talk" ; Having to stand : learning the practices ; Repositioning youth and learning to lead ; Battling a fear of failure ; Transformative peer groups ; Youth repositioning youth
• Interlude : fly-fight-win
• Conclusion: Unlearning disability
• Appendix: Ability across contexts : methods and realities.

Author/Creator:

Baines, AnnMarie Darrow

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

(Un)learning disability: recognizing and changing restrictive views of student ability [by Baines, A.D.]

Related Series:

Disability, culture, and equity series

Subjects:

Students with disabilities — Education

Students with disabilities — Psychology

Youth with mental disabilities — Education

Youth with mental disabilities — Psychology

Students with disabilities

Psychology

Youth with mental disabilities

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-167) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LC213 .B35 2014eb

ISBNs:

9780807772720 (electronic bk.)
0807772720 (electronic bk.)
9780807755150 [Invalid]
080775515X [Invalid]
9780807755365 [Invalid]
0807755362 [Invalid]
9780807755143 [Invalid]
0807755141 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

899215751

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3544918 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12231875