Question of Access Disability, Space, Meaning

Name: Question of Access Disability, Space, Meaning
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ISBN: 9781442610002

ISBN-10: 144261000X

ISBN-13: 9781442610002

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Tanya Titchkosky, Tanya Titchkosky

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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 Accessinvestigates 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…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 9/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

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