Academic ableism : disability and higher education / Jay Timothy Dolmage.
"Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay...
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Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor, MI :
University of Michigan Press,
[2017]
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Series: | Corporealities.
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Physical Description: | x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Book |
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"Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a drain, a problem to be solved. The ethic of higher education encourages students and teachers alike to accentuate ability, valorize perfection, and stigmatize anything that hints at intellectual, mental, or physical weakness, even as we gesture toward the value of diversity and innovation. Examining everything from campus accommodation processes, to architecture, to popular films about college life, Dolmage argues that disability is central to higher education, and that building more inclusive schools allows better education for all"--Back cover. |
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Call Number: | LC4818.38 .D66 2017 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-222) and index. |
ISBN: | 0472073710 9780472073719 047205371X 9780472053711 |