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Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education

Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education

Dolmage, Jay T.

Paperback

Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Health GeneralLiterary CriticismGeneral Education

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ISBN10: 047205371X
ISBN13: 9780472053711
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Nov 22 2017
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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