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The myth of the normal curve / edited by Curt Dudley-Marling and Alex Gurn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Disability studies in education ; v. 11.Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1433107295
  • 9781433107290
  • 1433107309
  • 9781433107306
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.9043 22
LOC classification:
  • LC3965 .D76 2010
Contents:
Introduction: living on the boundaries of normal / Curt Dudley-Marling & Alex Gurn -- Troubling the foundations of special education: examining the myth of the normal curve / Curt Dudley-Marling & Alex Gurn -- Educational researchers and the making of normal people / Deborah Gallagher -- Decentralizations and redistributions: a complex reading of normality / Brent Davis & Dennis Sumara -- Situating labeling within an ideological framework / Donaldo Macedo & Teresa Sordé Martí -- Evolutionary anxiety, monstrosity, and the birth of normality / Steven A. Gelb -- "Requires medication to progress academically": the discursive pathways of ADHD / Rebecca Rogers & Michael Mancini -- Assessment and the policing of the norm / Eileen W. Ball & Beth Harry -- Miner's canaries and boiling frogs: fiction and facts about normalcy in educational and reading assessment / Arlette Ingram Willis -- A dialogue we've yet to have: race and disability studies / Beth Ferri -- Labeling and treating linguistic minority students with disabilities as deficient and outside the normal curve: a pedagogy of exclusion / Felicity A. Crawford & Lilia I. Bartolomé -- Sex education and young adults with intellectual disabilities: crisis response, sexual diversity, and pleasure / Michael Gill -- The sirens of normative mythology: mother narratives of engagement and resistance / Jan Valle & Susan Gabel -- Living on the edge of the normal curve: "It's like a smack in the head" / Bernadette Macartney -- Practitioner research as resistance to the "normal curve" / Gerald Campano & Rob Simon -- Conclusion: re/visioning the ideological imagination in (special) education / Alex Gurn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: living on the boundaries of normal / Curt Dudley-Marling & Alex Gurn -- Troubling the foundations of special education: examining the myth of the normal curve / Curt Dudley-Marling & Alex Gurn -- Educational researchers and the making of normal people / Deborah Gallagher -- Decentralizations and redistributions: a complex reading of normality / Brent Davis & Dennis Sumara -- Situating labeling within an ideological framework / Donaldo Macedo & Teresa Sordé Martí -- Evolutionary anxiety, monstrosity, and the birth of normality / Steven A. Gelb -- "Requires medication to progress academically": the discursive pathways of ADHD / Rebecca Rogers & Michael Mancini -- Assessment and the policing of the norm / Eileen W. Ball & Beth Harry -- Miner's canaries and boiling frogs: fiction and facts about normalcy in educational and reading assessment / Arlette Ingram Willis -- A dialogue we've yet to have: race and disability studies / Beth Ferri -- Labeling and treating linguistic minority students with disabilities as deficient and outside the normal curve: a pedagogy of exclusion / Felicity A. Crawford & Lilia I. Bartolomé -- Sex education and young adults with intellectual disabilities: crisis response, sexual diversity, and pleasure / Michael Gill -- The sirens of normative mythology: mother narratives of engagement and resistance / Jan Valle & Susan Gabel -- Living on the edge of the normal curve: "It's like a smack in the head" / Bernadette Macartney -- Practitioner research as resistance to the "normal curve" / Gerald Campano & Rob Simon -- Conclusion: re/visioning the ideological imagination in (special) education / Alex Gurn.

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