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Brown, Nicole, Ed.; Leigh, Jennifer, Ed. – UCL Press, 2020
Rather than embracing difference as a reflection of wider society, academic ecosystems seek to normalise and homogenise ways of working and of being a researcher. As a consequence, ableism in academia is endemic. However, to date no attempt has been made to theorise experiences of ableism in academia. "Ableism in Academia" provides an…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Chronic Illness, Higher Education, College Faculty
Miller, S. J., Ed.; Kirkland, David E., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2010
"Change Matters," written by leading scholars committed to social justice in English education, provides researchers, university instructors, and preservice and inservice teachers with a framework that pivots social justice toward policy. The chapters in this volume detail rationales about generating social justice theory in what Freire calls "the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Class, Qualitative Research, Marital Status
Paulston, Rolland G., Ed. – 1996
This volume of essays enables readers to see utility in the practice of social mapping as it opens traditional cartographic representation to multiple perspectives and the play of difference. This book argues that social mapping is useful in constructing more comprehensive and reasonably accurate representations of social and cultural phenomena.…
Descriptors: Cartography, Comparative Education, Critical Theory, Cross Cultural Studies