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- ISSN: 0010-096X
- E-ISSN: 1939-9006
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Learning Disability, Pedagogies, and Public Discourse
- Source: College Composition & Communication, Volume 53, Issue 4, Jun 2002, p. 705 - 738
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- 01 Jun 2002
Abstract
I analyze the public and professional discourse of learning disability, arguing that medical models of literacy misdirect teaching by narrowing its focus to remediation. This insight about teaching is not new; resurgent demands for behaviorist pedagogies make understanding their continuing appeal important to composition studies.
© 2002 by the National Council of Teachers of English