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  • Disability and Higher Education (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
  • By: Jay T Dolmage
  • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Academic Ableism

By: Jay T Dolmage
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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.
©2017 Jay Timothy Dolmage (P)2020 University of Michigan Press
Higher & Continuing Education Education Physical Impairments & Disabilities Developmental Psychology
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"A comprehensive and detailed critique of ableism in higher education." (Patricia A. Dunn, College English)

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Brings to light many ignored ableist aspects

Educational Institutions and beyond need to take this book in to account and this book needs to be part of all educators training. It succinctly brings to light many ignored ableist aspects that can’t be ignored anymore.

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Essential Reading

Oerwhelmingly important information here, not just for academics but for anyone learning about ableism.

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