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Re-Mediating Narratives: Exceptional Children in Captivity

Re-Mediating Narratives: Exceptional Children in Captivity

Melissa Marini Švigelj
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781799888604|ISBN10: 1799888606|EISBN13: 9781799888628
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8860-4.ch018
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Švigelj, Melissa Marini. "Re-Mediating Narratives: Exceptional Children in Captivity." Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement, edited by Richard D. Williams, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 380-404. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8860-4.ch018

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Švigelj, M. M. (2022). Re-Mediating Narratives: Exceptional Children in Captivity. In R. Williams (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement (pp. 380-404). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8860-4.ch018

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Švigelj, Melissa Marini. "Re-Mediating Narratives: Exceptional Children in Captivity." In Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement, edited by Richard D. Williams, 380-404. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8860-4.ch018

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Abstract

This chapter draws from the experiences of a veteran educator teaching and learning with youths in a public high school located within a juvenile detention center between 2014-2018. Integrating the discourse of five young people who graduated from high school while in the juvenile detention center, the author demonstrates how the young people confront and re-mediate deficit-based narratives laden with the stereotypes that often surround students with exceptionalities in simultaneous, intersectional ways. Research specifically focused on young people who manage to graduate from high school while attending schools in JDCs (especially youth who identify as disabled or have been identified as having a disability) is significantly sparse. Furthermore, disability is often missing during analyses of incarceration and resistance. This chapter seeks to contribute to this understudied domain.

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