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Author:   David Bolt (Liverpool Hope University, UK) ,  Claire Penketh (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138858664

ISBN 10:   1138858668
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   05 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Challenging Institutional Avoidance: Systems and Education 1. Disability, Diversity and Diversion: Normalization and Avoidance in Higher Education 2. Disabling Policies and Exclusionary Infrastructures: A Critique of the AAUP Report 3. 'Crippled Inside?': Metaphors of Organisational Learning Difficulty 4. Avoiding New Literacies: Ideology, Dyslexia, and Perceived Deficits 5. School Textbooks and the Avoidance of Disability: Emptied of Representation Part 2: Challening Disciplinary Avoidance: The Case for Curricular Reform 6. Lessons in Critical Avoidance: Disability Studies and 'Special Educational Needs' 7. Words for Dignity: From Budapest to Berkeley and Back 8. Validating Critical Avoidance: Professional Social Work, Mental Health Service Users/Survivors, and the Academy 9. Servicescapes, People, Brands, and Marketing Management: Looking to the Future of Consumer Disability Research Through Disability Studies 10. Literary Disability Studies in Creative Writing: A Practical Approach to Theory 11. Fabulous Invalids Together: Why Disability in Mainstream Theater Matters 12. Ahimsa and the Ethics of Caring: Gandhi's Spiritual Experiments with Truth via an Idea of a Vulnerable Human Body Part 3: Challenging Critical Avoidance: Culture, Place, and Modernity 13. Disability Studies and Modern Responses to Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity: Critics' Avoidance 14. Avoiding Disability in Scottish Literary Studies? Scottish Studies, Ablenationalism, and Beyond 15. How I Can Go On: Embracing Modernity's Displeasure with Beckett's Murphy 16. Signifying Otherness in Modernity: The Subject of Disability in The Sun Also Rises and The Sound and the Fury 17. Epilogue

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Dr David Bolt is Associate Professor of Disability and Education at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom. He completed his PhD in 2004 at the University of Staffordshire. He has authored, edited, and guest edited numerous works about disability, literary representation, culture, language, and education. Dr Claire Penketh is Principal lecturer in Disability and Education at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom. She completed her PhD in 2010 at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has authored work on disability, art education, policy, and culture.

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