| Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society: A Life in Education Contributor(s): Connor, David J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498568211 ISBN-13: 9781498568210 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $134.64 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Special Education - Learning Disabilities - Biography & Autobiography | Educators - Education | Inclusive Education |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2018016846 |
| Series: Critical Issues in Disabilities and Education |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.50 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book chronicles the professional life of a career-long, inclusive educator in New York City through eight different stages in special and general education. Developing a new approach to research as part of qualitative methodology, David J. Connor merges the academic genre of autoethnography with memoir to create a narrative that engages the reader through stories of personal experiences within the professional world that politicized him as an educator. After each chapter's narrative, a systematic analytic commentary follows that focuses on: teaching and learning in schools and universities; the influence of educational laws; specific models of disability and how influence educators and educational researchers; and educational structures and systems-including their impact on social, political, and cultural experiences of people with disabilities. This autoethnographic memoir documents, over three decades, the relationship between special and general education, the growth of the inclusion movement, and the challenge of special education as a discrete academic field. As part of a national group of critical special educators, Connor describes the growth of counter-theory through the inception and subsequent growth of DSE as a viable academic field, and the importance of rethinking human differences in new ways. |