Ability Profiling and School Failure
Subtitle: One Child's Struggle to Be Seen As Competent
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: June 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780805841565
Subjects: Educational psychology; Philosophy of education; Special Education - Communicative Disorders; Discrimination in education; Education / Teaching; Education; Special Education - General; Administration - General; Education / Special Education / General; Case studies; Ability grouping in education; United States
Description: "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."--Jacket.