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" Mad at school : "
Margaret Price
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BL
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706789
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b528978
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Price, Margaret,1969-
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Mad at school : : rhetorics of mental disability and academic life /\ Margaret Price
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, 2014, ©2011
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Corporealities: discourses of disability
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xiv, 279 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0472051385
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: 0472071386
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: 9780472051380
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: 9780472071388
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-271) and index
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| Contents
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Listening to the subject of mental disability : intersections of academic and medical discourses -- Ways to move : presence, participation, and resistance in kairotic space -- The essential functions of the position : collegiality and productivity -- Assaults on the ivory tower : representations of madness in the discourse of U.S. school shootings -- "Her pronouns wax and wane" : mental disability, autobiography, and counter diagnosis -- In/ter/dependent scholarship
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| Abstract
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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 to incorporate the disabled mind?
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Mad at School is the first book to use a disability-studies perspective to focus on the ways that mental disabilities impact academic culture at institutions of higher education. Individual chapters examine the language used to denote mental disability; the role of "participation" and "presence" in student learning; the role of "collegiality" in faculty work; the controversy over "security" and free speech that has arisen in the wake of recent school shootings; and the marginalized status of independent scholars with mental disabilities. -- Publisher
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Mental disability (more often called "mental illness") is a topic of fast-growing interest in all spheres of American culture, including popular, governmental, aesthetic, and academic. Mad at School is a close study of the ways that mental disabilities impact academic culture. Investigating spaces including classrooms, faculty meeting rooms, and job searches, Price challenges her readers to reconsider long-held values of academic life, including productivity, participation, security, and independence. Ultimately, she argues that academic discourse both produces and is produced by a tacitly privileged "able mind," and that U.S. higher education would benefit from practices that create a more accessible academic world. - See more at: http://www.press.umich.edu/1612837/mad_at_school#sthash.yW0tRkHp.dpuf
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