A World Away From IEPs

How Disabled Students Learn in Out-of-School Spaces

Erin McCloskey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2022
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6672-9 (ISBN)

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Step outside of the IEPs and behavioral paperwork currently generated in schools, go where disabled people are thriving today, and see the results in learning, growth, and expression. This authoritative book offers readers alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education. Through illustrative case studies and a disability studies lens, author Erin McCloskey uses the voices of people with disabilities to show how these students progress creatively outside the classroom and school building—at the dojo, the riding arena, the theater stage, the music studio, and other community-centered spaces where disabled students can make choices about their learning, their bodies, and their goals. Balancing theory and practice, the book describes alternative learning spaces, demonstrates how disabled students learn there, and passes on the important lessons learned in each space. The ideas apply to students of all ages with a wide variety of disabilities.

Book Features:

Uses the voices of people with disabilities to promote alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education.
Presents rich case studies and briefer interludes to illustrate how disabled students are learning and thriving in surprising ways outside of school where they have opportunities to explore.
Distills important key takeaways from each case study through chapter sections of “lessons learned.”
Promotes informed discussion of the concepts in the book with questions at the end of each chapter.
Combines theory and practice to help readers put the concepts into action in a variety of settings with a variety of disabled students.

Erin McCloskey is an associate professor of education at Vassar College.

Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

1. A Special Education 1

Decision-Making and Special Education 2

Placement 3

Learning and Special Education 4

Individualized Learning 6

Behavior and Special Education 9

Theory and Method 12

2. The Dojo 17

Warming Up 22

Practice 24

Lessons Learned 31

Reflection Questions 37

Interlude, The Field 38

3. The Arena 40

The Reward of Risk-Taking 41

Gina’s Assistants 42

Mounting—ÒAre You Ready?Ó 43

ÒToday, You Are in ChargeÓ 45

Lessons Learned 52

Reflection Questions 57

Interlude, The Library 58

4. The Theater 60

Title: Affinity Spaces and the Theater 60

Act One 60

Scene One: Warm-Up 60

Act Two 66

Scene One: The Show 66

Title: Inclusivity by Design 67

Act One 67

Scene One: The Tour 67

Scene Two: Xavier 70

Scene Three: Karla 72

Act Two 73

Scene One: Belonging by Design 73

Lessons Learned 75

Reflection Questions 78

Interlude, The CafŽ 79

5. The Studio 81

Rhythm in My Bones 82

Suzy 83

Josh and Allie 85

Jam Session 88

Miriam 91

Lessons Learned 94

Reflection Questions 97

6. The Sinclair School: A Counterstory 98

References 105

Index 109

About the Author 116

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Alfredo J. Artiles
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 229 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8077-6672-0 / 0807766720
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-6672-9 / 9780807766729
Zustand	Neuware