{"product_id":"9780472051380","title":"Mad at School","description":"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?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.Mad at School is the first book to use a disability-studies perspective to focus specifically 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. ","brand":"Margaret Price, Tobin Siebers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45777298850110,"sku":"9780472051380","price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780472051380_9c7aaae0-9cc1-4e8c-9853-e1afcfd56829.jpg?v=1707258031","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780472051380","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}