Constructing (in)competence: Disabling Evaluations in Clinical and Social interaction

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805825916
• ISBN13: 9780805825916
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 7.5"