Enabling University Impairment, (Dis)ability and Social Justice in Higher Education /

• Main Author: Brabazon, Tara (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Higher education.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

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, mob...

Table of Contents:

• 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?.