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Enabling University

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

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Tara Brabazon

    1. School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia

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  • Configures strategies to open our universities to staff and students with impairments
  • Considers how students and staff with differing needs move through university processes and spaces
  • Demonstrates why discussions of impairment and disability are integral to any educational programme or policy
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Politics of Stairs

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 3-21

    3. The Politics of Mobility

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 23-27

    4. The Politics of Models

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 29-35

    5. The Politics of Labels

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 37-48

  3. Difference

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Making Change

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 51-54

    3. Why Universities Matter

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 55-60

    4. Beyond Stigma

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 61-65

    5. Difference and Judgment

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 67-73

  4. Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Intervention Through Teacher Education

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 77-95

    3. Universal Design: Designing for Life (and Learning)

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 97-109

    4. Conclusion: Futures

      • Tara Brabazon
      Pages 111-116

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 117-121
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia

    Tara Brabazon

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