TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose In the spirit of the growing Time is Up movement in North America, this paper aims to focus on the human dimension of academic learning environments and delves into the reasons for the continuous oppression, discrimination and bullying (ODB) of faculty members with disabilities in academia, showing the particularly detrimental effect of ODB in the small professionally oriented field of information science.Design/methodology/approach The conceptualizing of continuous ODB of people with disabilities in academia is done by carefully scrutinizing the state of affairs; presenting a nuanced survey of utilized terminology; providing a new and inclusive definition of everyday oppression; introducing a new model of an oppressive workplace environment experienced by people with disabilities; showing the centrality of information behaviours and phenomena in ODB; highlighting the high relevance of this discussion to learning science; and outlining potential detrimental effects of ODB on the psychological climate in and the process of professional higher education.Findings The model of an oppressive workplace environment experienced by people with disabilities is presented.Originality/value Unlike previous models of ODB at the workplace, the current model puts information phenomena as decisive factors in continuous ODB against people with disabilities; particular attention is paid to information avoidance behaviours; distorted or delayed information messages transmitted by managers to employees; gossip as an informal information-based tactic of ODB; the insufficient protection of privacy and confidentiality of information about disabilities and personal health; and vague information messages that diminish the usefulness of university policies on disabilities.
VL  - 119
IS  - 9/10
SN  - 2398-5348
DO  - 10.1108/ILS-04-2018-0032
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-04-2018-0032
AU  - Dali Keren
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - The right to be included: Ensuring the inclusive learning and work environment for people with disabilities in academia
T2  - Information and Learning Science
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 486
EP  - 513
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -