Ability Profiling and School Failure: One Child's Struggle to Be Seen As Competent - Couverture souple

Alexander, Kathleen Collin

 
9780805841565: Ability Profiling and School Failure: One Child's Struggle to Be Seen As Competent
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0805841563 ISBN 13 : 9780805841565
Editeur : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Ability Profiling and School Failure: One Child's Struggle to Be Seen as Competent explores the social and contextual forces that shape the appearance of academic ability and disability and how these forces influence the perception of academic underachievement of minority students. It is a powerful case study of a competent fifth grader, an African American boy growing up in a predominantly white, rural community, who was excluded from participating in science and literacy discourses within his classroom community.

The case study form allows for the integration of the story of the student's struggle to be seen as competent in school, a context where his teacher perceives him as learning disabled, with Collins' own perspective as a researcher and teacher-educator engaged in a professional development effort with the teacher. The contribution of this book is to make visible the situated and socially constructed nature of ability, identity, and achievement, and to illustrate the role of educational and social exclusion in positioning students within particular identities.

Highly relevant across the field of education, this book will particularly interest researchers, graduate students, and professionals in literacy and science education, curriculum and instruction, sociocultural theories of learning, discourse analysis of classrooms, research on teaching and learning, special education, social foundations, and teacher education.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Ability Profiling and School Failure: One Child's Struggle to Be Seen as Competent explores the social and contextual forces that shape the appearance of academic ability and disability and how these forces influence the perception of academic underachievement of minority students. It is a powerful case study of a competent fifth grader, an African American boy growing up in a predominantly white, rural community, who was excluded from participating in science and literacy discourses within his classroom community.

The case study form allows for the integration of the story of the student's struggle to be seen as competent in school, a context where his teacher perceives him as learning disabled, with Collins' own perspective as a researcher and teacher-educator engaged in a professional development effort with the teacher. The contribution of this book is to make visible the situated and socially constructed nature of ability, identity, and achievement, and to illustrate the role of educational and social exclusion in positioning students within particular identities.

Highly relevant across the field of education, this book will particularly interest researchers, graduate students, and professionals in literacy and science education, curriculum and instruction, sociocultural theories of learning, discourse analysis of classrooms, research on teaching and learning, special education, social foundations, and teacher education.

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Éditeur
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0805841563
ISBN 13 
9780805841565
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
254
Éditeur
Collins Kathleen M.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780805841558: Ability Profiling and School Failure: One Child's Struggle to Be Seen As Competent

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0805841555 ISBN 13 :  9780805841558
Editeur : Routledge, 2003
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