The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 144261000X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mark Castrodale said Review of The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning by Tanya Titchkosky. "In The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning Tanya Titchkosky offers a thoughtful discussion of disability related issues informed conceptually by the field of disability studies. This book is relevant for diverse audiences, scholars, policy makers, students, and anyone
I suggest that this text be required reading in courses in higher education administration as well as all sociology courses.’ (Nirmala Erevelles, Department of Educational Leadership, Technology, and Policy Studies, The University of Alabama)‘The Question of Access provides a very critical deconstruction of disability, disability studies, and even what it means to be dis/abled… This is a brilliant text that asks the readers to rethink their own critical understandings of accesses, even in the supposedly diverse and understanding settings of academia.’ (Allison Hitt The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies vol 01:01:2012)‘Through narratives of struggle and analyses of policy and everyday practice, The Question of Access presents
Tanya Titchkosky is an associate professor and an associate department chair at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Values such as ‘access’ and ‘inclusion’ are unquestioned in the contemporary educational landscape. 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.. 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