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Academic ableism : disability and higher education

Dolmage, Jay, author

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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.

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Subject: Discrimination in higher education. / Discrimination against people with disabilities. / Universities and colleges Sociological aspects. / College buildings Barrier-free design. / People with disabilities Education (Higher) / College students with disabilities. / Sociology of disability.
• ISBN: 9780472073719, 9780472053711, 0472073710, 047205371X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
LC4818.38.D66 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE