Katarzyna Parys

Fakt, że w obszarze pedagogiki specjalnej pomaganie przyjmuje postać nadrzędnej idei i zasadniczego kierunku działań rehabilitacyjnych, skłania do refleksji nad istotą i złożonością tego zjawiska. W tekście ukazano syntagmatyczny charakter pomocy i poddano analizie jej zasadnicze komponenty, którymi są: biorca i dawca pomocy, relacje zachodzące pomiędzy nimi, cel i motywy udzielania pomocy, sposoby jej realizacji, granice oraz konsekwencje pomagania. Uporządkowanie wymienionych elementów i poddanie ich refleksji to istotny, choć nie jedyny, cel artykułu. Niezwykle ważne było wyrażenie sprzeciwu wobec traktowania osób z niepełnosprawnością wyłącznie w kategorii biorców działań pomocowych i zwrócenie uwagi na potrzebę oraz możliwość skutecznego wypełniania roli dawców pomocy.

The concept of help in special pedagogy – key dimensions of a syntagmatic relation

Helping in the area of special education takes the form of the overarching idea and the fundamental direction of rehabilitation activities. This makes it is worth considering the essence and complexity of this phenomenon. The article presents the syntagmatic nature of help and analysed its essential components, which are: the recipient and the giver of help, relationships between them, the purpose and motives of providing help, ways to implement it, boundaries in helping and consequences of helping. Organizing these elements and reflecting them is an important, though not the only, purpose of the article. It was crucial to object to the treatment of people with disabilities only in the category of recipients of assistance activities and to draw attention to the need and the possibility of effectively fulfilling by them the role of givers of help

Special Education Teachers’ Locus of Control and Creative Life Orientations

The main aim of this article is to attempt to determine the relationship between locus of control and creative orientations of life of special education teachers. The article presents the theoretical framework for the study. Discussed in detail the procedure for research and presented author’s project for the method of analyzing the results. The results confirmed the existence of a positive, though not very strong correlation between the creative life orientations of special education teachers and their internal locus of control, which means that restricting the freedom of the teacher can minimize the level of her/his creativity at work. The results of the research allowed to formulate practical conclusion for teaching, their implementation would help to strengthen the creative attitudes of special education teachers

The life trajectory of person with mild intellectual disability

The presented paper discusses he use of a life-event history approach to understand the life trajectories of people with mild intellectual disabilities. There were recognized and analysed life events which had a very strong impact on participants’ life and directly affected their social fate. The critical events that appeared to influence one’s life was identification of disability and the time it was no longer valid. To make some generalizations and postulates within formulated conclusions, this paper is a contribution to promote equal opportunities and prevent social marginalization of people with mild intellectual disability

Artykuł zawiera analizę przemian zachodzących w polskiej pedagogice specjalnej w trzech zasadniczych obszarach: zakresie oddziaływań pedagogiki specjalnej wyrażającym się w systematyce, podmiocie i przedmiocie tych działań, a także w podejściu badawczym oraz terminologii, jaką posługuje się pedagogika specjalna. Źródłem opisanych zjawisk są przeobrażenia zachodzące w podejściu do niepełnosprawności i do osób z niepełnosprawnością.

Vectors of changes taking place in Polish special pedagogy

The article contains an analysis of transformations that emerged in Polish special pedagogy in three basic areas: the scope of impacts of special pedagogy being expressed in the systematics, the subject and the object of such measures as well as in the research approach and the terminology employed by special pedagogy. The transformations in the approach to disability and people with disabilities are described as the sources of described phenomena