Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society (eBook)

A Life in Education

David J. Connor (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
320 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6822-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book chronicles the life of an inclusive educator through eight different stages of his career, from classroom teacher to college professor. Analysis of this rich narrative reveals complexities of how both the field of education’s knowledge base and existing educational systems impact lives of children, teachers, and researchers.

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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 systemsincluding 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.

Autor

David J. Connor is professor of special education/learning disabilities at Hunter College

Inhalt

A Note from the EditorNote to the ReaderPreface: From World’s End to World’s CenterIntroductionChapter 1: Classroom TeacherChapter 2: Staff DeveloperChapter 3: Doctoral StudentChapter 4: Teacher CoachChapter 5: College ProfessorChapter 6: ScholarChapter 7: Doctoral FacultyChapter 8: Department ChairpersonEpilogueAcknowledgmentsAppendixReferencesAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Issues in Disabilities and Education
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
• Schlagworte: Autoethnography • Cultural Studies • Disability Studies • Political Science • Special education • Special education policy
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6822-X / 149856822X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6822-7 / 9781498568227