Meeting Families Where They Are: Building Equity Through Advocacy with Diverse Schools and Communities

ISBN-13: 9780807763841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 183 str.

Beth Harry; Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg; Alfredo J. Artiles

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments vii
• 1. Constructing Meanings of Human Difference at the Intersections of Identity: Personal and Conceptual Considerations 1
• The Authors' Lenses 3
• DisCrit: A Lens for Viewing Family and Community Intersections 4
• The Co-Construction of Advocacy 8
• Overview of the Book 8
• Qualitative Vignettes and Authors' Reflections 10
• 2. Parent Advocacy and the Challenge of Difference 13
• Personal Perspectives 14
• Goals and Avenues of Advocacy  16
• Why Advocacy for the Value of the Child? 18
• 3. Constructing Race and Disabilities as Intrinsic Differences: A Cultural-Historical View 25
• "Intrinsic" Attributions: From the Supernatural to Science 25
• Conquest, Slavery, and Colonization: The Intertwining of Race, Disability, and "Normality" 28
• Families with Developmentally Disabled Children in the 19th Century 32
• The 20th Century: The Hegemony of Intelligence as a Measurable Construct 36
• The 20th Century and the Disempowerment of Parents 42
• 4. Parent Voices Rising: Challenging Constructions of Difference 49
• Advocacy and the Judges 49
• Parents' Published Narratives 51
• The Emergence of Advocacy Organizations 59
• Exposing the Institutions 65
• 5. The Social Construction of Humanness 71
• The Meaning of Disability 75
• The Painful Contours of Parent Advocacy 77
• 6. Advocacy Toward the EHA: Converging Interests and Intersections 93
• Parent Advocacy: The Law as the Vehicle 93
• The Construction of Disability Under the Law 96
• The Label as a Negotiating Tool 102
• The Label as Exclusion or Confusion 107
• 7. Parent Advocacy Under the Umbrella of the EHA/IDEA 109
• Challenges of Racism, Ethnocentrism, and Context 110
• Parent Advocacy: The Law as the Obstacle 125
• 8. Reframing Advocacy, Repositioning the Advocate 139
• De-Constructing Advocacy 140
• Revisiting Our Guiding Principles 145
• Co-Constructing Advocacy: Developing a New Model 151
• Forging Ahead 157
• The Next Chapter 158
• References 161
• Index 175
• About the Authors 184