How Teaching Shapes Our Thinking About Disabilities; Stories from the Field (26) (Disability Studies in Education)

Beth A. Ferri, David J. Connor

ISBN 10: 143318561X / ISBN 13: 9781433185618

Editore: Peter Lang US 2021-04-26, 2021

Codice articolo 6666-GRD-9781433185618

Riassunto:

This book purposefully connects practice to research, and vice versa, through the use of deeply personal stories in the form of autoethnographic memoirs. In this collection, twenty contributors share selected tales of teaching students with dis/abilities in K-12 settings across the USA, including tentative triumphs, frustrating failures, and a deep desire to understand the dynamics of teaching and learning. The authors also share an early awareness of significant dissonance between academic knowledge taught to them in teacher education programs and their own experiential knowledge in schools. Coming to question established practices within the field of special education in relation to the children they taught, each author grew increasingly critical of deficit-models of disability that emphasized commonplace practices of physical and social exclusion, dysfunction and disorders, repetitive remediation and punitive punishments. The authors describe how their interactions with children and youth, parents, and administrators, in the context of their classrooms and schools, influenced a shift away from the limiting discourse of special education and toward become critical special educators and/or engage with disability studies as a way to reclaim, reframe, and reimagine disability as a natural part of human diversity. Furthermore, the authors document how these early experiences in the everydayness of schooling helped ground them as teachers and later, teacher educators, who galvanized their research trajectories around studying issues of access and equality throughout educational structures and systems, while developing new theoretical models within Disability Studies in Education, aimed to impact practices and policies.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: How Teaching Shapes Our Thinking About ...
Casa editrice: Peter Lang US 2021-04-26
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New