Equity and Social Justice in Education #: Ableism in Education

Rethinking School Practices and Policies

Equity and Social Justice in Education #: Ableism in Education
Gillian Parekh
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10 Jun 2022 US
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9781324016793
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Ability is so central to schooling-where we explicitly and continuously shape, assess, measure, and report on students' abilities-that ability-based decisions often appear logical and natural. However, how schools respond to ability results in very real, lifelong social and economic consequences. Special education and academic streaming (or tracking) are two of the most prominent ability-based strategies public schools use to organize student learning. Both have had a long and complicated relationship with gender, race, and class. , In this down-to-earth guide, Dr. Gillian Parekh unpacks the realities of how ability and disability play out within schooling, including insights from students, teachers, and administrators about the barriers faced by students on the basis of ability. From the challenges with ability testing to gifted programs to the disability rights movement, Parekh shows how ableism is inextricably linked to other forms of bias. Her book is a powerful tool for educators committed to justice-seeking practices in schools.

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Ableism in Education provides a necessary counternarrative to the lives of disabled students and their families. Education scholar Gillian Parekh writes of how ableism as an ideology serves to structure the ways in which we think of, and work with, students who present as not having met predetermined indicators of social and intellectual development. With this critical and valuable work, Parekh makes the indispensable link between ableism, classism, and racism, detailing how these and other forms of discrimination operate as barriers to education and schooling. A must read for educators, clinicians and parents. --Carl E. James, author of Colour Matter: Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth Ableism in Education: Rethinking School Practices and Policies is an essential read for all educators in public education. Dr. Parekh provides a direct but simple alternative path forward in rethinking the purpose of public education from one largely instrumental in reinforcing societies' existing inequities and oppression to one that could serve as a critical platform for social justice and opportunity for the historically most marginalized and economically disadvantaged communities and people. In rethinking common notions of ' ability' and ' disability' --both central to public education' s mission--Parekh breathes life into a different way to perceive what it is to know something, for whom, and for what. In so doing, she offers new possibilities for how educators and the education system alike might work. --Dr. David Hagen Cameron, Senior Manager Research and Development, Toronto District School Board
Gillian Parekh is an educator, assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Inclusion, Disability and Education within the Faculty of Education, York University. As a previous teacher in special education and research coordinator with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Gillian has conducted extensive system and school-based research in Toronto in the areas of structural equity, special education, and academic streaming. In particular, her work explores how schools construct and respond to disability as well as how students are organized across programs and systems. She resides in Ontario with her family.
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ISBN-13: 9781324016793
Published: 10 Jun 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 224mm
Width: 145mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
Pages: 208

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