The Myth of the Normal Curve
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It is generally taken for granted that human behavior distributes along the lines of a bell-shaped, normal curve. This idea underpins much educational theory, research, and practice. There is, however, a considerable body of research demonstrating that the normal curve grossly misrepresents the human experience. Yet the acceptance of the normal curve continues to be used to pathologize children and adults with disabilities by positioning them as abnormal. Collectively, the contributors to this volume critique the ideology of the normal curve. Some explicitly challenge the assumptions that underpin the normal curve. Others indirectly critique notions of normality by examining the impact of normal curve thinking on educational policies and practices. Many contributors go beyond critiquing the normal curve to propose alternative ways to imagine human differences. All contributors agree that the hegemony of the normal curve has had a devastating effect on those presumed to live on the boundaries of normal.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Curt Dudley-Marling/Alex Gurn: Introduction: Living on the Boundaries of Normal – Curt Dudley-Marling/Alex Gurn: Troubling the Foundations of Special Education: Examining the Myth of the Normal Curve – Deborah Gallagher: Educational Researchers and the Making of Normal People – Brent Davis/Dennis Sumara: Decentralizations and Redistributions: A Complex Reading of Normality – Donaldo Macedo/Teresa Sordé Martí: Situating Labeling within an Ideological Framework – Steven A. Gelb: Evolutionary Anxiety, Monstrosity, and the Birth of Normality – Rebecca Rogers/ Michael Mancini: «Requires Medication to Progress Academically»: The Discursive Pathways of ADHD – Eileen W. Ball/Beth Harry: Assessment and the Policing of the Norm – Arlette Ingram Willis: Miner’s Canaries and Boiling Frogs: Fiction and Facts about Normalcy in Educational and Reading Assessment – Beth Ferri: A Dialogue We’ve Yet to Have: Race and Disability Studies – Felicity A. Crawford/Lilia I. Bartolomé: Labeling and Treating Linguistic Minority Students with Disabilities as Deficient and Outside the Normal Curve: A Pedagogy of Exclusion – Michael Gill: Sex Education and Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Crisis Response, Sexual Diversity, and Pleasure – Jan Valle/Susan Gabel: The Sirens of Normative Mythology: Mother Narratives of Engagement and Resistance – Bernadette Macartney: Living on the Edge of the Normal Curve: «It’s Like a Smack in the Head» – Gerald Campano/Rob Simon: Practitioner Research as Resistance to the «Normal Curve» – Alex Gurn: Conclusion: Re/visioning the Ideological Imagination in (Special) Education.

About the Author :
Curt Dudley-Marling was a special education teacher for seven years and also taught third grade. He is currently a professor in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College where he teaches courses on language and literacy. His scholarly interests include the social construction of school failure, classroom discourse, and disability studies. Alex Gurn is a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and instruction at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College. His professional work experiences include work as a community-based educator, as a language teacher with high school and adult learners, and as an out-of-school time specialist for the Massachusetts Department of Education. His other research interests span the sociology of education, cultural studies, youth literacy practices in and out of educational institutions, and qualitative research methodologies.

Review :
"In this provocative and illuminating book, a stellar collection of authors critiques 'the normal curve,' one of the most enduring (and damaging) myths in American education. This must-read book will prompt readers to rethink their fundamental assumptions about ability and disability." (Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Cawthorne Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools, Lynch School of Education, Boston College) "'The Myth of the Normal Curve' provides a much-needed critique of commonly and even scientifically accepted notions of normality. For too long we have supported an ideology of normality without much interrogation of the subject. This book provides that interrogation." (Lennard J. Davis, Professor of English and Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago)


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  • ISBN-13: 9781433107290
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 11 Disability Studies in Education
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1433107295
  • Publisher Date: 24 Aug 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 262
  • Weight: 390 gr


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