Sustaining Disabled Youth - Centering Disability in Asset Pedagogies

About the author

Federico R. Waitoller is an associate professor in the department of special education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace. In 2023 he received the AERA Special and Inclusive Education SIG Distinguished Researcher Award. Kathleen A. King Thorius is an associate professor in Indiana University's School of Education-IUPUI, executive director of the Great Lakes Equity Center, and co-editor of Ability, Equity, and Culture: Sustaining Inclusive Urban Education Reform.

Summary

Brings together a collection of work that situates disability as a key aspect of children and youth’s cultural identity construction. The book explores how disability intersects with other markers of difference to create unique cultural repertoires to be valued, sustained, and utilized for learning.

Product details

• Assisted by: James A Banks (Editor), Kathleen A King Thorius (Editor), Kathleen A. King Thorius (Editor), Kathleen King Thorius (Editor), Federico R Waitoller (Editor), Federico R. Waitoller (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.2022
• EAN: 9780807767689
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6768-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Multicultural Education Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education