Academic Ableism

Disability and Higher Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-472-05371-1
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dolmage, Jay T

Über Autor(innen)

Jay Timothy Dolmage is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.