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The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning - Softcover

Titchkosky, Tanya

 
9781442610002: The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning
Softcover
ISBN 10: 144261000X ISBN 13: 9781442610002
Publisher: 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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
144261000X
ISBN 13 
9781442610002
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192