Ability Profiling and School Failure: One Child's Struggle to be Seen as Competent

ISBN-13: 9780415898225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

Kathleen M. Collins

Opis

Exploring the social & contextual forces that shape the appearance of academic ability & disability, this book shows how these forces influence the perception of academic underachievement by minority students.

O autorze

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.