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How do high school students confront and resolve conflicting messages about their intelligence and academic potential, particularly when labelled with social and learning disabilities? How does disability become “disablement” when negative attitudes and disparaging perceptions of ability position students as outsiders? Following the lives of adolescents at home as well as in and out of school, the author makes visible the disabling language, contextual arrangements, and unconscious social practices that restrict learning regardless of special education services. She also showcases how young people resist disablement to transform their worlds and pursue pathways most important to them. Educators can use this important resource to recognise and change disabling practices that are often taken for granted as a natural part of schooling.

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""In (Un)Learning Disability, Baines weaves the experiences of eight students into a convincing, powerful call to the field: confronting the deep-seated disabling practices in today's schools and empowering students to gain ownership of their identity development must become a priority."" --Harvard Educational Review

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AnnMarie Darrow Baines is an assistant professor in the department of secondary education at San Francisco State University.

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