Negotiating Disability: Disclosure and Higher Education

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Synopsis
Disability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts on students, faculty, administrators, and staff. While disclosing one’s disability and identifying shared experiences can engender moments of solidarity, the situation is always complicated by the intersecting factors of race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. With disability disclosure as a central point of departure, this collection of essays builds on scholarship that highlights the deeply rhetorical nature of disclosure and embodied movement, emphasizing disability disclosure as a complex calculus in which degrees of perceptibility are dependent on contexts, types of interactions that are unfolding, interlocutors’ long- and short-term goals, disabilities, and disability experiences, and many other contingencies.
Copyright:
2017

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780472123391
Related ISBNs:
9780472073702, 9780472053704
Publisher:
University of Michigan Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Stephanie L Kerschbaum, Laura T Eisenman, James M Jones
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction, Education, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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