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Linda J. (Hrsg.) Graham

(De)constructing ADHD

Critical Guidance for Teachers and Teacher Educators

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has achieved celebrity status in many Western countries, yet despite considerable effort to prove its existence as a real disorder, ADHD still suffers from a crisis of legitimacy. Nonetheless, diagnosis and prescription of medication has grown at a phenomenal rate since the late 1980s, particularly in Western culture. Numerous accounts exist explaining how the ADHD diagnosis functions as a convenient administrative loophole, providing schools with a medical explanation for school failure, medication to sedate the problem into submission, or the means to eject children from mainstream classrooms.… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4331-0640-8
  • EAN: 9781433106408
  • Produktnummer: 19038455
  • Verlag: Peter Lang
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.7 cm 491 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 491

Über den Autor


Linda J. Graham is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University in Sydney. She completed her doctoral study, titled Schooling Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders: Educational Systems of Formation and the 'Disorderly' School Child in 2007, for which she received the Queensland University of Technology Outstanding Thesis Award for 2007 and the Australian Association for Research in Education Excellence in Doctoral Research Award for 2008. Her research interests concern the role of educational policy and practices in the medicalization of childhood and the improvement of responses to children who are difficult to teach.

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