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Title
Enabling university [electronic resource] : impairment, (dis)ability and social justice in higher education / Tara Brabazon.
ISBN
9783319128023 electronic book
3319128027 electronic book
9783319128016
Published
Cham : Springer, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : color illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-12802-3 doi
Call Number
LC4812
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.90474
Summary
This work takes the most recent, interdisciplinary research and demonstrates how to make higher education institutions open, accessible and socially just for staff and students with disabilities. Combining the scholarly fields of media platform management, information literacy, internet studies, mobility studies and disability studies, this book offers a guide and method to consider how students and staff with differing needs move through university processes, spaces and interfaces. It captures the challenges and potentials of both the online and offline university. The key concept of the book is universal design. This term and theory is used to move beyond the medical and social model of disability that disconnect and separate the issues of disability and impairment from core societal concerns. This book confirms that most of us will be touched by impairment through our lives. When matched with the necessity to retrain and gain new skills for a post-recession future, there must be a renewed commitment to not only the widening participation agenda of higher education, but also the enabling of universities for men and women with impairments.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 16, 2015).
Series
SpringerBriefs in education.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319128016
Prologue: Disabled are Able?
Introduction: Failure is not an Option
Part One: Politics
1. The Politics of Stairs
2. The Politics of Mobility
3. The Politics of Models
4. The Politics of Labels
Part Two: Difference
5. Why Universities Matter
6. Beyond Stigma
7. Difference and Judgment
Part Three: Design
8. Intervention through Teacher Education
9. Universal Design: Designing for Life (and Learning)
Conclusion: Futures
Prologue: Disabled are Able?.
