Tag: Neurodiversity

AI meets academia: a robot faces a gatekeeping professor holding keys.

Who Gets Accused? AI Detection Bias, Academic Integrity, and the Uneven Field in Higher Education

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When universities reach for AI detection tools to police academic integrity, they reach for instruments that are neither accurate nor neutral. Research shows that non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and those whose natural writing style resembles AI output face disproportionate false accusations. This article applies a moral panic framework to ask what the response to AI in higher education actually reveals — and who it disadvantages.

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Quietly Neurodivergent

Quiet Neurodivergence, Spoons, and the Sociology of Invisible Struggle

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This article develops quiet neurodivergence as a way of naming how some neurodivergent people appear to cope in education, work and civic life while absorbing hidden costs in masking, energy use and burnout. Drawing on neurodiversity, spoon theory, stigma and camouflaging research, and critical disability studies, it argues that quiet neurodivergence is produced by neuronormative institutions and patterned by class, race, gender and access to diagnosis.

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Society Wasn’t Built for Us: A Bourdieuian View of Neurodivergence

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Exploring how Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of capital, habitus, fields, and symbolic violence reveal the hidden barriers faced by neurodivergent people.

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Neurodiversity Brain

The Rise of ‘Neurodiversity Chic’: Meaningful Progress or Just Branding?

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Discover the complexities of neurodiversity’s rise in mainstream society, from increased awareness and policy shifts to concerns over performative advocacy and media stereotypes. This in-depth analysis explores the sociological impact, challenges, and future of neurodivergent inclusion.

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