Soft Disability in Schools: Assisting or Confining At Risk Children and Youth?.

Karagiannis, Anastasios

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ERIC Number: EJ615347

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2000

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Soft Disability in Schools: Assisting or Confining At Risk Children and Youth?

Karagiannis, Anastasios

Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative, v34 n2 p113-134 Aug 2000

Examines the institutional construction of soft or mild disability by special education as a process of pre-incarceration in schools. Argues that labels of soft disability suspend the educational and citizenship participation of disadvantaged students. Outlines variation and inquiry as alternative concepts that may reverse the negative school dynamic between soft disability and (pre)incarceration. (Contains 78 references.) (VWC)

Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Disability Discrimination, Educationally Disadvantaged, Labeling (of Persons), Learning Disabilities, Special Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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