Schooling Children with Down Syndrome: Toward an Understanding of Possibility
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Book Overview
This engrossing volume explores Down syndrome and disability in the cultural context of school. The author traces the history of community banishment inflicted on people with Down syndrome, exposes artifacts of this history in certain contemporary school practices, and then, based on extensive fieldwork, describes numerous school contexts currently resisting traditions of segregation. Using real classroom examples, the book analyzes restructured educational communities in which the meaning of mental retardation is directly challenged. Some of the issues addressed include literacy and language, friendship, behavior, and the cultural construction of disability. The author ends with a call for the elimination of segregated schooling.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807737313
ISBN13:9780807737316
Release Date:April 1998
Publisher:Teachers College Press
Length:190 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Such an important book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This book is not only an important piece of research but also a great story of gifted teachers and unique learners. This book is beyond throught-provoking...it is ground-breaking. Those who read it will learn much about possibilities for people with disabilities and their teachers and for schooling itself.
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