The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning - Couverture souple

Titchkosky, Tanya

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144261000X ISBN 13 : 9781442610002

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2011

Synopsis

Values such as 'access' and 'inclusion' are unquestioned in the contemporary educational landscape. But many methods of addressing these issues -- installing signs, ramps, and accessible washrooms -- frame disability only as a problem to be 'fixed.' The Question of Access investigates the social meanings of access in contemporary university life from the perspective of Cultural Disability Studies.

Through narratives of struggle and analyses of policy and everyday practices, Tanya Titchkosky shows how interpretations of access reproduce conceptions of who belongs, where and when. Titchkosky examines how the bureaucratization of access issues has affected understandings of our lives together in social space. Representing 'access' as a beginning point for how disability can be rethought, rather than as a mere synonym for justice, The Question of Access allows readers to critically question their own implicit conceptions of disability, non-disability, and access.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tanya Titchkosky is an associate professor and an associate department chair at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 144261000X
• ISBN 13: 9781442610002
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible