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Ability Profiling and School Failure - One Child's Struggle to be Seen as Competent (Hardcover)
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Ability Profiling and School Failure - One Child's Struggle to be Seen as Competent (Hardcover)
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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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