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Literacy Education and Disability Studies: Reenvisioning Struggling Students
Author(s) -
Collins Kathleen,
Ferri Beth
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.552
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , literacy , perspective (graphical) , reciprocal , pedagogy , psychology , standardization , mathematics education , political science , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
In this commentary, the authors present disability studies in education ( DSE ) as an alternative way to reframe, understand, and teach students who are positioned as struggling in literacy classrooms. As the authors detail, a DSE perspective changes the relationship between teachers and students to a more reciprocal one, and in doing so, it relocates the source of and responsibility for literacy struggles. The authors begin with a discussion of DSE , followed by a reconsideration of how to support students in developing their academic literacies. The commentary concludes with a discussion of why, in an era marked by increasing educational standardization and homogenization, a move to teaching that is informed by a DSE perspective is increasingly a matter of great urgency.