Academic Ableism : Disability and Higher Education / Jay Timothy Dolmage.

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Dolmage, Jay [author.]

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TextSeries: Corporealities: discourses of disability | Corporealities | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780472123414
9780472073719
9780472053711
9780472900725

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

378.0087 23

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LC4812 .D653 2017

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Contents:

1. Steep steps -- 2. The retrofit -- 3. Imaginary college students -- 4. Universal design -- 5. Disability on campus, on film : framing the failures of higher education.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index.

1. Steep steps -- 2. The retrofit -- 3. Imaginary college students -- 4. Universal design -- 5. Disability on campus, on film : framing the failures of higher education.

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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.

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