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Academic Ableism
- Disability and Higher Education (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
- Narrated by: Greg Chun
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Academic Ableism
Publisher's 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.
What the critics say
"A comprehensive and detailed critique of ableism in higher education." (Patricia A. Dunn, College English)
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- Rebecca
- 2021-03-11
Wonderful and informative!
This book is wonderful clearly written and engaging, it lives up to its own principles by being provided in many formats. Would recommend it to anyone!
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- Shaghayegh D.
- 2020-08-10
It was awesome!
I loved it. Thank you so much. It helped me to read a book much easier than I could do. Since English is my second language, it takes me a lot of time to read a chapter, but listening to this audio, bought me a lot of time!
Thanks a lot
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