How Long to Read Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education

How Long Does it Take to Read Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 32 minutes to read Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education by Elizabeth A. Harkins Monaco

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book focuses on preparing culturally competent educators who use culturally sustaining practices and culturally relevant curricula and instruction to reach and teach all students with disabilities, including those with multiple social identities, through a varied multi-cultural lens. Today’s diverse classrooms require that educators possess competencies for teaching all students. This book has two primary audiences: 1. Pre-service educators 2. Special education practitioners and administrators First, this book will assist pre-service students learning about special education for students with disabilities. We fully expect this book could be a required reading for students majoring in special education, for school social work students, for school counselors, and for students majoring in vocational rehabilitation services as a part of their coursework for transition. Second, this book will assist special education practitioners and administrators to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities including those with multiple social identities. Understanding the full-range of needs relating to cultural sustaining practices is imperative to working with individuals with disabilities and their families and care-givers. Being able to understand and explain this complex issue to others is important and often very necessary. This book is incredibly timely. Recent contributors to social injustices are the COVID-19 pandemic and the continued issues around police brutality and people of color. Social injustice in special education is historical and systemic. Special education practitioners are typically unaware of the importance of intersectional differences (Gay & Howard, 2000; Owen, 2010). Historically, practitioners have only been prepared to address cultural perspectives during awareness days and or through specific units in curricula. Other times they discuss it diagnostically (Linton, 1998), such as part of an educational plan or a need to learn English as a second language. Other issues stem from the value system of the special education practitioners themselves; some are not willing to engage in these concepts (Darling-Hammond, 2002); some “define fairness and equity as treating all children the same; and [others identify being] ‘colorblind’ [as] valuing diversity” (Owen, 2010, p. 18). Even when special educator practitioners attempt to address injustices on behalf of their students, they tend to center only on the student’s disability which means they are ignoring or erasing other aspects of their students’ identities. These issues highlight the importance of building the cultural competence of our teaching force. This book will help practitioners build this competence in their own spheres of influence.

How long is Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education?

Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education by Elizabeth A. Harkins Monaco is 451 pages long, and a total of 113,201 words.

This makes it 152% the length of the average book. It also has 138% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 18 minutes to read Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education aloud.

What Reading Level is Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education?

Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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