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Handicapping the handicapped : decision making in students' educational careers

Title
Handicapping the handicapped : decision making in students' educational careers / Hugh Mehan, Alma Hertweck, and J. Lee Meihls.
Author
Mehan, Hugh, 1941-
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Hertweck, Alma, 1937-
  • Meihls, J. Lee, 1954-
Description
ix, 193 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Based on field research in a West Coast school district, this study attempts to explain and understand the process by which elementary school students are placed in categories such as "learning disabled" and "educationally handicapped." It shows how conventional practices such as tracking and special education placement mediate the relationship between students' characteristics, measured ability, and educational achievement. The analysis focuses on three key decision-making events - classroom behavior, educational testing situations, and placement committee hearings..." -- Dust jacket.
Subject
  • Learning disabled children > Rating of > United States
  • School grade placement > United States
  • Ability grouping in education
  • Education and state > United States
  • Special education
  • Grading and marking (Students)
  • Disabled Children > education
  • Education, Special
  • special education
  • Special education
  • Ability grouping in education
  • Education and state
  • Learning disabled children > Rating of
  • School grade placement
  • Behinderung
  • Chancengleichheit
  • Kind
  • Schullaufbahn
  • Schulsoziologie
  • Schoolloopbaan
  • Leermoeilijkheden
  • Besluitvorming
  • United States
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 179-188.
Contents
The role of school in society -- The role of society in school -- The ethnographic context of the study -- Constraints on educational decision making -- Teachers' interpretations of students' behavior -- Putting psychodioagnostics to the test -- The discourse of persuasion -- Educators' accounts of students' behavior -- Conclusions.
ISBN
  • 0804713049
  • 9780804713047
LCCN
85022084
OCLC
  • ocm12558735
  • 12558735
  • SCSB-635461
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library