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Barriers to Higher Education for Students with Bipolar Disorder: a Critical Social Model Perspective
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Abstract Employing some of the features of participatory research methodology, a disabled faculty joins a student with mental health diagnosis to examine the factors that hinder or enable success for this group. The theoretical framework or scholarly bearings for the study comes from the critical social mode... view more
Employing some of the features of participatory research methodology, a disabled faculty joins a student with mental health diagnosis to examine the factors that hinder or enable success for this group. The theoretical framework or scholarly bearings for the study comes from the critical social model of disability, disability services scholarship in the United States, and education theory literature on “student success”. With a particular focus on students with bipolar disorder, the article highlights the gaps in disability scholarship on this specific group while underscoring the oppression experienced by them through the inclusion of an autoethnographic segment by the primary author in this collaborative, scholarly work. The model of access, we propose, moves beyond accommodations—which are often retrofits or after the thought arrangements made by an institution—and asks for environmental support, social and institutional inclusion, and consideration for students with psychiatric health diagnosis. This article not only presents an array of problems in the United States academy but also a set of recommendations for solving these problems. Going beyond the regime of retrofit accommodations, we ask for an overhaul of institutional policies, infrastructures, and curricula so that the academy is inclusive of neurodiverse bodies and appreciates their difference.... view less
Keywords
university level of education; student; disability; mental disability; scholastic aptitude; academic success; scholarship; educational theory; university admission; inclusion; mental illness; United States of America
Classification
Social Problems
University Education
Free Keywords
academic ableism; autoethnography; bipolar disorder; critical social model; disability accommodations; disclosure in higher education; retrofits
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 194-206
Journal
Social Inclusion, 6 (2018) 4
Issue topic
Students with Disabilities in Higher Education
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed