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Meeting Families Where They Are: Disability, Culture, and Equity Series

Autor Beth Harry, Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg Editat de Alfredo J Artiles
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2020
"The authors examine the importance of equitable family advocacy in special education professionals' work, in order to redress inequities that often challenge children's and families' rights to sufficient and equitable educational outcomes. Harry and Ocasio-Stoutenburg draw on intersectionality to inform the work of advocacy. In the words of the authors, "our purpose is to change the language of advocacy from its original meaning of one who speaks for-to one who speaks with." Advocacy is not a "one size fits all" kind of work. The authors examine the socio-historical context of advocacy work, its further development in the Civil Rights Era, and provide grounded examples of doing advocacy work at the school/community level, as well as at the policy level. The book intends to provide a working model of co-constructed advocacy to benefit all families"--
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ISBN-13: 9780807763841
ISBN-10: 0807763845
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Teachers College Press
Seria Disability, Culture, and Equity Series


Notă biografică

Beth Harry is a professor of special education and chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami, and coauthor of Why Are So Many Minority Students in Special Education? Second Edition. Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg is a doctoral candidate at the University of Miami.

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Presents a discussion of how human disability and parental advocacy have been constructed in American society, including recommendations for a more authentically inclusive vision of parental advocacy. The authors provide a cultural-historical view of the conflation of racism, classism, and ableism that have left a deeply entrenched stigma.