Badder than "just a bunch of SPEDs": Alternative schooling and student resistance to special education rhetoric

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-86

  Becker, Sarah ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative schooling; Gender; Identity; Race; Special education; Troublemaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649240511     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241609341540     Document Type: Article

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