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The Promise of Adulthood
Philip M. Ferguson and Dianne L. Ferguson
"How do we assure ourselves that [our severely disabled son] Ian is somehow contributing to all the choices that get made about what constitutes a good adult life for him? We have created new options for Ian and others as we have struggled to answer these ques-tions. We have also increased our understanding of what it means for someone who has a variety of severe disabilities to be adult."
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Radical Pedagogy as Cultural Politics: Beyond the Discourse of Critique and Anti-Utopianism
Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren
"Within the last fifteen years a radical theory of education has emerged in the United States. Broadly defined as "the new sociology of education" or "a critical theory of education," a critical pedagogy developed within this discourse attempts to examine schools both in their historical context and as part of the social and political relations that characterize the dominant society. While hardly constituting a unified discourse, critical pedagogy nevertheless has managed to pose an important counterlogic to the positivistic, ahistorical, depoliticized discourse that often informs modes of analysis employed by liberal and conservative critics of schooling, modes all too readily visible in most colleges of education. Taking as one of its fundamental concerns the need to reemphasize the centrality of politics and power in understanding how schools function within the larger society, critical pedagogy has catalyzed a great deal of work on the political economy of schooling, the state and education, the politics of representation, discourse analysis, and the construction of student subjectivity."
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The Creation of Chronicity: An Institutional Case Study of Social Policy and Severe Retardation in the Progressive Era
Philip M. Ferguson
The theme of this volume is emerging issues in disability studies. To the extent that disability studies is a relatively new field, new issues are constantly emerging and the discipline could hardly be characterized as in a state of "normal science," to borrow a phrase from Thomas Kuhn. Too, since the field of disability studies is interdisciplinary, new issues constantly emerge as researchers synthesize concepts and approaches from various more traditional disciplines (e.g., sociology, political science, psychology, law).
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Reproducing Reproduction: The Politics of Tracking
Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren
"Although sixty-five years have passed since Count's study, schools continue to reproduce class, gender, and racial inequality. The problem is most clearly evident in institutionalized tracking."
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Teacher Education and the Politics of Democratic Reform
Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren
"Part of our intention in this chapter is to argue that teacher education institutions need to be reconceived as public spheres… [w]e want to explore how a radicalized teaching force can provide for both empowering teachers and teaching for empowerment."
Below you may find selected books and book chapters from faculty in the Attallah College of Educational Studies.
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