Ability profiling and school failure
Ability profiling and school failure: one child's struggle to be seen as competent
by Kathleen M. Collins
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
ISBN: 0805841555
DDC: 371.254
LCC: LB3061
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Summary:
"Ability Profiling and School Failure 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-225) and indexes.
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