Constructing (in)competence (eBook, ePUB)

Disabling Evaluations in Clinical and Social interaction
Redaktion: Kovarsky, Dana; Duchan, Judith F.; Maxwell, Madeline

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Competence and incompetence are constructs that emerge in the social milieu of everyday life. Individuals are continually making and revising judgments about each other's abilities as they interact. The flexible, situated view of competence conveyed by the research of the authors in this volume is a departure from the way that competence is usually thought about in the fields of communication disabilities and education. In the social constructivist view, competence is not a fixed mass, residing within an individual, or a fixed judgment, defined externally. Rather, it is variable, sensitive to what is going on in the here and now, and coconstructed by those present. Constructions of competence are tied to evaluations implicit in the communication of the participants as well as to explicit evaluations of how things are going.

The authors address the social construction of competence in a variety of situations: engaging in therapy for communication and other disorders, working and living with people with disabilities, speaking a second language, living with deafness, and giving and receiving instruction. Their studies focus on adults and children, including those with disabilities (aphasia, traumatic brain injury, augmentative systems users), as they go about managing their lives and identities. They examine the all-important context in which participants make competence judgments, assess the impact of implicit judgments and formal diagnoses, and look at the types of evaluations made during interaction.

This book makes an argument all helping professionals need to hear: institutional, clinical, and social practices promoting judgments must be changed to practices that are more positive and empowering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134804931
• Artikelnr.: 42683666

Autorenporträt

Judith F. Duchan, Dana Kovarsky, Madeline Maxwell

Inhaltsangabe

Content: Part I:Introduction.J. Duchan
M. Maxwell
D. Kovarsky
Evaluating Competence in the Course of Everyday Interaction. Part II: Hidden Factors Influencing Judgments of Competence.R. Stillman
R. Snow
K. Warren
"I Used to Be Good With Kids." Encounters Between Speech-Language Pathology Students and Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). D.J. Higginbotham
D.P. Wilkins
Slipping Through the Timestream: Social Issues of Time and Timing in Augmented Interactions. C.J. Winkler
How Opposing Perceptions of Communication Competence Were Constructed by Taiwanese Graduate Students. T.I. Saenz
K.G. Black
L. Pellegrini
The Social Competence of Children Diagnosed With Specific Language Impairment. M. Maxwell
D. Poeppelmeyer
L. Polich
Deaf Members and Nonmembers: The Creation of Culture Through Communication Practices. F. Trix
Spiraling Connections: The Practice of Repair in Bektashi Muslim Discourse. Part III: Diagnosis as Situated Practice.D.W. Maynard
C.L. Marlaire
Good Reasons for Bad Testing Performance: The Interactional Substrate of Educational Testing. T. Wyatt
An Afro-Centered View of Communicative Competence. J.F. Duchan
Reports Written by Speech-Language Pathologists: The Role of Agenda in Constructing Client Competence. A.M. Mastergeorge
Revelations of Family Perceptions of Diagnosis and Disorder Through Metaphor. E.L. Barton
The Social Work of Diagnosis: Evidence for Judgments of Competence and Incompetence. Part IV:Intervention as Situated Practice.D. Kovarsky
M. Kimbarow
D. Kastner
The Construction of Incompetence During Group Therapy With Traumatically Brain Injured Adults. N. Simmons-Mackie
J.S. Damico
Social Role Negotiation in Aphasia Therapy: Competence
Incompetence
and Conflict. K. Ferrara
The Social Construction of Language Incompetence and Social Identity in Psychotherapy.