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100 1 _aDolmage, Jay,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAcademic ableism :
_bdisability and higher education /
_cJay Timothy Dolmage.
300 _ax, 244 pages :
_billustrations ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 193-222) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- Steep steps -- The retrofit -- Imaginary college students -- Universal design -- Disability on campus, on film: framing the failures of higher education -- Commencement.
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aDiscrimination in higher education.
650 0 _aDiscrimination against people with disabilities.
650 0 _aUniversities and colleges
_xSociological aspects.
650 0 _aCollege buildings
_xBarrier-free design.
650 0 _aPeople with disabilities
_xEducation (Higher)
650 0 _aCollege students with disabilities.
650 0 _aSociology of disability.
650 7 _aCollege buildings
_xBarrier-free design.
650 7 _aCollege students with disabilities.
650 7 _aDiscrimination against people with disabilities.
650 7 _aDiscrimination in higher education.
650 7 _aPeople with disabilities
_xEducation (Higher)
650 7 _aSociology of disability.
650 7 _aUniversities and colleges
_xSociological aspects.
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