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Learning disabilities

2011

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Beyond Culture As Group Traits: Future Learning Disabilities Ontology, Epistemology, And Inquiry On Research Knowledge Use, Alfredo J. Artiles, Kathleen King Thorius, Aydin Bal, Rebecca A. Neal, Federico Waitoller, David Hernandez-Saca Jul 2011

Beyond Culture As Group Traits: Future Learning Disabilities Ontology, Epistemology, And Inquiry On Research Knowledge Use, Alfredo J. Artiles, Kathleen King Thorius, Aydin Bal, Rebecca A. Neal, Federico Waitoller, David Hernandez-Saca

Rebecca Neal

The construct of culture has been largely invisible in the research and long-standing debates in the learning disabilities (LD) field, such as those pertaining to the definition of LD and how research knowledge is used in local settings. When used, the idea of culture tends to be defined as unrelated to LD and studied as restricted to individual/group traits. We challenge the culture–LD dichotomy and the limited conception of culture used in this knowledge base. For this purpose, we make the case for a cultural model of learning that can inform scholarship about the nature of LD, and we propose …