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100 1 $aCollins, Kathleen M.
245 10 $aAbility profiling and school failure :$bone
child's struggle to be seen as competent /$cKathleen M.
Collins.
260 $aMahwah, N.J. :$bL. Erlbaum Associates,$c2003.
300 $axxi, 232 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-225)
and indexes.
520 1 $a"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.
650 0 $aAbility grouping in education$zUnited
States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aDiscrimination in education$zUnited States$vCase
studies.
