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Dyslexia and Learning

An Insider Account of Negotiating Barriers and AIDS in Secondary Education

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Personal narratives derived from insider accounts of schooling can illuminate our understanding of how individuals negotiate their learning; and how teachers and schools might empower or marginalise students on the basis of a specific learning disability. This chapter retrospectively examines the lived experience of one of the authors, Alanna, as a student diagnosed with dyslexia.

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  1. Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia, Australia

    Jenene Burke

  2. Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia, Australia

    Alanna Bushby

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  1. Victoria University, Australia

    Vicky Plows

  2. Deakin University, Australia

    Ben Whitburn

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Burke, J., Bushby, A. (2017). Dyslexia and Learning. In: Plows, V., Whitburn, B. (eds) Inclusive Education. Innovations and Controversies: Interrogating Educational Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-866-2_10

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