Breaking the Boundaries
Discover the inequalities faced by autistic students in higher education and learn how to improve their experiences.
About The Book
Table of Contents
About The Author
How can we break the systems excluding autistic people from higher education?
Universities and colleges are built on systems that by nature exclude autistic students, since they're built on neurotypical foundations. As one of the few actually autistic higher education mentors for autistic students in the UK, Jorik Mol seeks to improve autistic students' lives by validating their experience and challenging universities to listen to them.
Drawing from his own lived experience, and building on case studies, working alongside his mentees, Mol offers guidance on how to best support students, emphasising the need to normalise radical empathy, values-driven motivation and self-advocacy.
Exploring topics including community, boundaries, and burn-out, while pushing hard against the status quo, this book is ideal reading for students of Education, Disability Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and Queer and LGBTQ+ Studies, as well as education practitioners and policymakers.
How can we break the systems excluding autistic people from higher education?
Universities and colleges are built on systems that by nature exclude autistic students, since they're built on neurotypical foundations. As one of the few actually autistic higher education mentors for autistic students in the UK, Jorik Mol seeks to improve autistic students' lives by validating their experience and challenging universities to listen to them.
Drawing from his own lived experience, and building on case studies, working alongside his mentees, Mol offers guidance on how to best support students, emphasising the need to normalise radical empathy, values-driven motivation and self-advocacy.
Exploring topics including community, boundaries, and burn-out, while pushing hard against the status quo, this book is ideal reading for students of Education, Disability Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and Queer and LGBTQ+ Studies, as well as education practitioners and policymakers.
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Abstract
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Warning
- About the author
- Introduction
- Learning objectives
- 1 Jorik
- 2 Adam
- 3 Marcus
- 4 Brandon
- 5 Miles
- 6 Lissa
- 7 Esther
- 8 Daisy
- 9 Zoey
- 10 Stephen
- 11 Nik
- 12 Noah
- 13 Tim
- 14 Jack
- 15 Emma
- 16 Questions and answers
- 1. Why are you excluding me?
- 2. What do I need to be able to do?
- 3. Ok then – what should change?
- 4. What about your boundaries?
- 5. Do all mentoring relationships work?
- 6. What do your students think?
- 7. How do I stop myself from burning out?
- 8. How do I make communities with other mentors?
- 9. I’m neurotypical. How can I help?
- 10. Where do you see this field in ten years?
- 11. Ok, could you, like, systematise this?
- 12. How can we find you? (my details)
- Conclusion
- Recommended projects/assignments/discussion questions
- References
- Recommended further reading
- Index
Jorik Mol (he/him) is an autistic Mentor, author and Freelance Autism and Neurodiversity Consultant.
