Why Are So Many Students of Color in Special Education?

Understanding Race and Disability in Schools

Beth Harry, Janette Klingner (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2022 | 3rd edition
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6732-0 (ISBN)

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Bringing to life the voices of children, families, and school personnel, this bestseller describes in detail the school climates and social processes that place many children of color at risk of being assigned inappropriate disability labels. Now in its third edition, this powerful ethnographic study examines the placement of Black and Hispanic students in the subjectively determined, high-incidence disability categories of special education. The authors present compelling narratives representing the range of experiences faced by culturally and linguistically diverse students who fall under the liminal shadow of perceived disability. This edition updates the literature on disproportionality, highlighting the deeply embedded and systemic nature of this decades-old pattern in which reforms represent mere shifts across disability categories, while disproportionality remains. Applying lenses of cultural-historical and critical disability theories, this edition expands on the authors’ previous theoretical insights with updated recommendations for improving educational practice, teacher training, and policy renewal.

Book Features:

A unique examination of the school-based contributors to disproportionality based on research conducted in a large, culturally diverse school district.
Holistic views of the referral and placement process detailing students’ trajectories across 4 years from initial instruction to referral, evaluation, and placement in special education.
An update on the patterns and literature related to disproportionality.
Analysis of the cultural-historical nature of disproportionality and the socially constructed nature of the high-incidence disability categories.
Recommendations for changing the conceptualization of children’s learning difficulties, moving away from the presumption of children’s intrinsic deficits toward evaluations based on human variation.

Beth Harry is a professor emerita of special education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami. She is also the founder of the Immortelle Centre for Special Education in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Janette Klingner (deceased) was a professor at the University of Colorado, president-elect for the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), and a vice-president for the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities.

Contents

Foreword to the Third Edition Alfredo J. Artiles ix

Acknowledgments xi

1. Introduction 1

2. Overview: Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education 39

3. School Structure: Institutional Bias and Individual Agency 58

4. Cultural Consonance, Dissonance, and the Nuances of Racism 74

5. In the Classroom: Opportunity to Learn 90

6. The Construction of Family Identity: Stereotypes and Cultural Capital 103

7. At the Conference Table: The Discourse of Identity Construction 122

8. Bilingual Issues and the Referral Process 143

9. Constructing Intellectual Disability: Cracks and Redundancies 153

10. Constructing Learning Disabilities: Redundancies and Discrepancies 161

11. Constructing Emotional/Behavior Disorders: From Troubling to Troubled Behavior 174

12. Into Special Education: Exile or Solution? 186

13. Conclusions and Recommendations 199

Epilogue. Research Methods: Who Are We, and How Did We Do This Research? 213

References 236

Index 252

About the Authors 259

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2022
Vorwort	Alfredo J. Artiles
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8077-6732-8 / 0807767328
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-6732-0 / 9780807767320
Zustand	Neuware