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Allies for Inclusion: Disability and Equity in Higher Education: ASHE Volume 39, Number 5 - Softcover
Synopsis
Here is an overview of students with disabilities in postsecondary institutions and the importance of allies in their lives. It is a call to action for faculty, staff, and administrators in all facets of higher education, and emphasizes the shared responsibility toward students with disabilities and toward creating meaningful change.
This monograph begins with a look into the future of disability education. How will students create their own identities? Will there be a need for disability accommodations or will a universally designed world eliminate that current necessity? It also looks at the past, with discussions of disability legislation such as the ADA of 1990, the impact of Supreme Court decisions, descriptions of college students with disabilities, and the paradigm shift from the medical “deficit” model of disability to one that focuses on the individual’s lived experience as a social construct.
Drawing on theoretical frameworks in multiple disciplines, disability identity development is explained, ally development is defined, and disability services are explored. The monograph ends with a discussion of where disability education is now and how faculty, staff, and administrators will continue to be allies of inclusion for students in the years to come.
This is the 5th issue of the 39th volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.
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ALLIES FOR INCLUSION: DISABILITY AND EQUITY IN HIGHER
EDUCATION provides an overview of students with disabilities in postsecondary institutions and the importance of allies in their lives. It is a call to action for faculty, staff, and administrators in all facets of higher education, and emphasizes the shared responsibility toward students with disabilities and toward creating meaningful change. This monograph begins with a look into the future of disability education.
Imagine a disability movement in the years to come. How will students create their own identities? Will there be a need for disability accommodations or will a universally designed world eliminate that current necessity? According to Morris Massey, we only will know where we are going if we know where we have been. Discussions of disability legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, the impact of Supreme Court decisions, descriptions of college students with disabilities, and the paradigm shift from the medical “deficit” model of disability to one that focuses on the individual’s lived experience as a social construct allow understanding of the past. Drawing on theoretical frameworks in multiple disciplines, disability
identity development is explained, ally development is defined, and disability services are explored. The monograph ends with a discussion of where disability education is now and how faculty, staff, and administrators will continue to be allies of inclusion for students in the years to come.
About the Author
KAREN A. MYERS, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the higher
education administration graduate program at Saint Louis University and the
director of the award-winning international disability education project, Allies for
Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit.
JACI JENKINS LINDBURG, PhD, is the assistant director of academic affairs for the
Division of Continuing Studies and a member of the faculty in women’s and gender
studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
DANIELLE M. NIED, MS, is the assistant director for housing and residence life for
leadership and training and PhD student in the higher education program at Saint
Louis University.
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- PublisherJossey-Bass
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1118846117
- ISBN 13 9781118846117
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages154
- EditorMyers Karen A.
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