| Description |
viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Disability studies in education ; v. 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: living on the boundaries of normal / Curt Dudley-Marling & Alex Gurn -- Troubling the foundations of special education: examining the myth of the normal curve / Curt Dudley-Marling & Alex Gurn -- Educational researchers and the making of normal people / Deborah Gallagher -- Decentralizations and redistributions: a complex reading of normality / Brent Davis & Dennis Sumara -- Situating labeling within and ideological framework / Donaldo Macedo & Teresa Sordé Marti -- Evolutionary anxiety, monstrosity, and the birth of normality / Steven A. Gelb -- "Requires medication to progress academically": the discursive pathways of ADHD / Rebecca Rogers & Michael Mancini -- Assessment and the policing of the norm / Eileen W. Ball & Beth Harry -- Miner's canaries and boiling frogs: fiction and facts about normalcy in educational and reading assessment / Arlette Ingram Willis -- A dialogue we've yet to have: race and disability studies / Beth Ferri -- Labeling and treating linguistic minority students with disabilities as deficient and outside the normal curve: a pedagogy of exclusion / Felicity A. Crawford & Lilia I. Bartolomé -- Sex education and young adults with intellectual disabilities: crisis response, sexual diversity and pleasure / Michael Gill -- The sirens of normative mythology: mother narratives of engagement and resistance / Jan Valle & Susan Gabel -- Living on the edge of the normal curve: "It's like a smack in the head" / Bernadette Macartney -- Practitioner research as resistance to the "normal curve" / Gerald Campano & Rob Simon -- Conclusion: re/visioning the ideological imagination in (special) education / Alex Gurn. |
| Subject |
Special education.
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Disability studies.
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Intelligence levels.
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| Added Author |
Gurn, Alex, 1976-
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| ISBN |
9781433107290 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1433107295 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781433107306 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1433107309 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| OCLC # |
639574795 |
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