Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Educati. Dolmage Paperback**

Name: Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Educati. Dolmage Paperback**
Brand: The University of Michigan Press

The University of Michigan Press

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\n\nAcademic Ableism \u2013 Disability and Higher Education\nDisability and Higher Education\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail track;