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'A very important study that will appeal to a disability studies audience as well as scholars in social movements, social justice, critical pedagogy, literacy education, professional development for disability and learning specialists in access centers and student counseling centers, as well as the broader domains of sociology and education.'---Melanie Panitch, Ryerson University'Ableism is alive and well in higher education. We do not know how to abandon the myth of the'pure (ivory) tower that props up and is propped up by ableist ideology.'... Mad at School is thoroughly researched and pathbreaking.... The author's presentation of her own experience with mental illness is woven throughout the text with candor and eloquence.'---Linda Ware, State University of New York at Geneseo Mad at School explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in the setting of U.S. higher education. Much of the research and teaching within disability studies assumes a disabled body but a rational and energetic (an'agile') mind. In Mad at School, scholar and disabilities activist Margaret Price asks: How might our education practices change if we understood disability

Author

Margaret Price

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472051380

Subjects

Science, Education, Psychology