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Marquis, Elizabeth – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This article explores the representation of disability and academic identity in two award-winning films: "Still Alice" and "The Theory of Everything." Drawing on scholarship about embodiment and the 'normal professor body', I demonstrate how the complex images of disabled academics in these films take up and replicate (to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Films, Self Concept, Disabilities
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Shenk, Dena; Moore, Linda; Davis, Boyd – Educational Gerontology, 2004
This article derives from the experience of teaching an asynchronous web-based course, Communicating with Older Persons with Alzheimer's Disease, taught by a multidisciplinary team of three faculty. The students also were multidisciplinary with diverse cultural and educational backgrounds and varied professional experience with older adults. Our…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Gerontology, Distance Education, Alzheimers Disease