Cultural Disability Studies in Education

Cultural Disability Studies in Education unites cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education in recognising education as a discourse between educators and students who examine how disability is represented across academic disciplines and curricular to language, theory, narrative, and characterisation. Enhanced and updated throughout, this new edition combines disability studies with a selection of 10 indicative disciplines, making the case that disability studies is a great asset to many other disciplines including aesthetics, film studies, Holocaust studies, gender studies, happiness studies, popular music studies, humour studies, media studies and now including two new chapters on disability and literature and disability and radio studies. Discussions are approached via the tripartite model of disability, a critical framework that disrupts one-dimensional representations and enables complex analyses along the lines of normative positivity, non-normative negativity, and non-normative positivity. Fully revised and expanded, this second edition will be required reading for all scholars and students of disability studies, cultural disability studies, disability studies in education, sociology and cultural studies.

David Bolt is Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies and Program Lead of the Disability Studies MA at Liverpool Hope University.

Prologue. Non-normative Ontology: Social Aesthetics and Identity Pedagogics 1. Novel Thinking: Disability, Literature, and the Classic Forbidden Romance 2. Visions from the Yellow Decade: Disability, Aesthetics, and Residual Existence 3. From Sideshow to Cinema: Disability, Film, and Horrification 4. Remembering the Drowned and the Saved: Disability, Holocaust, and the Inadequacies of Representation 5. In the Log House: Disability, Gender, and Resistance to Social Norms 6. Stuff Happens: Disability, Happiness, and the Pursuit of Cure 7. End of the Rock Star: Disability, Music, and the Passage of Time 8. One of the Crowd: Disability, Humour, and the Contradictions of Comedy 9. On the Campaign Trail: Disability, Media, and Levels of Representation 10. Out of Touch: Disability, Radio, and Complex Otherness Epilogue. Disability and Disciplines: Learning, Teaching, and Reflecting