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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810207703321

Autore

Collins Kathleen M

Titolo

Ability profiling and school failure : one child's struggle to be seen as competent / / by Kathleen M. Collins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003

ISBN

1-282-32224-9

9786612322242

1-4106-0781-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

371.2/54

Soggetti

Ability grouping in education - United States

Discrimination in education - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-225) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: A Sociocultural Perspective on [Dis]ability; Chapter 2 The Boy Who Had Something to Say; Chapter 3 "He's What I Would Call 'Out There.'"; Chapter 4 "He Was Immediate. He Was Like Immediate."; Chapter 5 "Where's the Evidence?"; Chapter 6 "Jay Just Amazes Me During This, He Really Does."; Chapter 7 "It Will Be Very, Very Difficult for Him to Learn How to Function in the Class."; Chapter 8 "It's Like a Burst, a Burst of Fire."; Chapter 9 "You Got to Hear This!"; Chapter 10 "So Who Wrote It?"

Chapter 11 "Jay, We Gotta Find You a Group."Chapter 12 "I'm the Boy Who Likes Bugs."; Chapter 13 "Do You Think I'm Proper?"; Chapter 14 "This Ain't Easy!"; Chapter 15 "Church Is Not a Game!"; Chapter 16 "I Think That's Why We Became Very Good Friends."; Chapter 17 Ability Profiling and School Failure: Learning From Jay's Story; Epilogue; Appendix: Approaches to Inquiry, Analysis, and Representation; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

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