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Ability Profiling and School Failure : One Child's Struggle to Be Seen as Competent
Overview
Exploring the social and contextual forces that shape the appearance of academic ability and disability, this work shows how these forces influence the perception of academic underachievement by minority students. It provides a 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780805841565
- ISBN-10: 0805841563
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: June 2003
- Dimensions: 9.04 x 5.96 x 0.53 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.77 pounds
- Page Count: 232
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