%0 Journal Article
%T Personal Self-Fulfilment of Children and Youth in the School Environment Through Relationships with Persons with Disabilities
%A Łobacz, Małgorzata
%A Łobacz, Paweł
%J Polish Pedagogical Thought
%V X (2024)
%R 10.4467/24504564PMP.24.027.19983
%N Issue 10
%P 279-294
%K personal self-fulfilment, school, disability, help
%@ 2450-4572
%D 2024
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/polska-mysl-pedagogiczna/article/urzeczywistnianie-osobowe-dzieci-i-mlodziezy-w-srodowisku-szkolnym-na-drodze-relacji-z-osobami-z-niepelnosprawnoscia
%X The present article, after the introductory remarks, discusses the difficult matter that is continually of interest to the researchers: children’s and youth’s relationships with their disabled peers in the school environment. The paper goes on to focus on the key issue of personal self-fulfilment and presents the conditions that lead to attaining personal self-realisation through contact with the “Other” – a physically incapacitated person. These considerations are concluded with a short summary. People as human beings are required to fulfil themselves, to realise their humanity, to achieve their full potential. It can only be done through morally good deeds. Therefore, it is crucial to nurture in children, since an early age, an appropriate attitude towards other people, especially those who are weak, ill, or afflicted with suffering. The article aims to presenting the school environment as a place where children and youth fulfil themselves through relationships with disabled persons.