Untold narratives : African Americans who received special education services and succeeded beyond expectations

This edited book reflects a much needed area of scholarship as the voices of African American (AA) or Black students defined by various labels such as learning disability, blindness/visual impairment, cognitive development, speech or language impairment, and hearing impairment are rare within the sc...

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Other Authors Robinson, Shawn Anthony (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., 2018.
Subjects
African Americans with disabilities > Education.
African American children > Education.
Children with disabilities > Education > United States.
Special education > Social aspects > United States.
African Americans with disabilities > Biography.
elektronické knihy
Biographies.
Education > Special Education > General.
Teaching of students with different educational needs.
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608171
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-186-5
Physical Description1 online resource (154 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: The narrative experiences of African Americans with disabilities: A call for critical reflection. Introduction: Untold narratives: african americans who received special education services and succeeded beyond expectations / Shawn Anthony Robinson
  • Part I. Setting the stage
  • Chapter 1. Historical policy analysis of educational policies for the differently abled in america / Jody A. Fields and Kristie Roberts-Lewis
  • Chapter 2. Structural segregation, disproportionate representation, and disabling assumptions in special education: A black educator's narrative / Saran Stewart and David Kennedy
  • Part II. Transformative framework: Stories from African American men
  • Chapter 3. Accessing special education: The lived experience of AI? black male with learning disabilities / Amar Abbott
  • Chapter 4. A voice within: How private speech continues to propel one man to academic success / Russell Ewell
  • Chapter 5. Insecurities of special education: What it's like to be black, male, and learning disabled / Ronnie Nelson Sidney II
  • Part III. Transformative framework: Stories from African American women
  • Chapter 6. It can be done / Danyelle Cerillo
  • Chapter 7. Otosclerosis: The invisible disease / Aunye Boone
  • Chapter 8. Not about the disability, but the ability to succeed / Oluwakemi Elufiede
  • Part IV. Cultural capital classroom activity
  • Chapter 9. Cultural capital classroom activity. Afterword. about the editor.

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