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Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY IN POZNAŃ INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTEXTS OF SPECIAL PEDAGOGY Academic editor BEATA JACHIMCZAK POZNAŃ 2019 INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTEXTS OF SPECIAL PEDAGOGY The scientific journal of the Faculty of Educational Studies Adam Mickiewicz University issued as a quarterly EDTITORIAL BOARD Chief Editor – Iwona Chrzanowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) Assistant Editor – Magdalena Olempska-Wysocka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) Secretary – Aneta Wojciechowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) Andrzej Twardowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan), Agnieszka Słopień (Poznan University of Medical Sciences), Beata Jachimczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan), Katarzyna Pawelczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan), Miron Zelina (Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave), Jana Rapuš-Pavel (Univerza v Ljubljani), William Brenton (Universi- ty of Maine Presque Isle), Jacek Pyżalski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan), Amadeusz Krause (The University of Gdansk), Jarmila Novotná (MBA Dubrnický technologický inštitút v Dubnici and Váhom, Masarykova Univerzita v Brně), Magdalena Olempska-Wysocka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) SUBJECT EDITORS Iwona Chrzanowska (inclusive education, pedagogy of people with special educational needs) Andrzej Twardowski (psychology of human development, early support of child development) Agnieszka Słopień (psychiatry of children and adolescents) Beata Jachimczak (inclusive education, pedagogy of people with special educational needs) Katarzyna Pawelczak (psychology of people with disabilities) Aneta Wojciechowska (special education, logopedics) Miron Zelina (pedagogy, psychology) Jana Rapuš-Pavel (social pedagogy) William Brenton (special education) Jacek Pyżalski (media pedagogy, resocialization) Amadeusz Krause (special education) Jarmila Novotná (pedagogy) Magdalena Olempska-Wysocka (psychology, deaf education, logopedics) LANGUAGE EDITORS Karolina Kuryś (Polish) Wendy Ross (English) Nicol Ross (English) STATISTICAL EDITOR Paweł Mleczko © Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2019 Publication financed by the Faculty of Educational Studies Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań „Tłumaczenie zawartości 8 numerów czasopisma „Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej” na język angielski – zadanie finansowane w ramach umowy 792/P-DUN/2017 ze środków Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszech- niającą naukę”. ISSN 2300-391X Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................... 7 KATARZYNA PARYS , SŁAWOMIR OLSZEWSKI Demanding disability – an analysis of opportunities and threats related to the functioning of people with mild intellectual disabilities. Part 1 ............................................................................................................. 15 MATEUSZ SZUREK Assessment of the capacity to create and understand wordbuilding structures by a child with minor intellectual disability .......................... 39 ANIDA SZAFRAŃSKA Support Teachers in the Education of Students with Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Integrated and Mainstream Schools ................. 59 MARTA NIEMIEC Work of teachers co-organising the process of education of pupils with special educational needs in the opinions of public school teachers ......................................................................................................... 81 MACIEJ JABŁOŃSKI Apparent Activities in Special Education. A Critical Analysis of Core Curriculum ................................................................................................... 103 KRYSTYNA BARŁÓG The context of special pedagogy: practical inclusive education or simulated inclusive education? ................................................................. 125 4 Contents NAVA BAR, BOSHRA KANJ-SIRHAN The ‘parents’ choice’: the recent perceptual changes in special education law in israel and its implementation in the field ................... 143 MAGDALENA WAŁACHOWSKA Parenting of people with visual disabilities as an interdisciplinary context of contemporary special education ............................................. 163 KAMIL KURACKI Satisfaction with the support received by parents of children with disabilities and the diversity of parental behaviour towards the child ..... 191 JAROSŁAW BĄBKA Lifestyles of Intellectually Disabled Adults ............................................. 217 DOROTA PRYSAK The objectification of adulthood of persons with deeper and deep intellectual disability ................................................................................... 237 DIANA AKSAMIT, BARBARA MARCINKOWSKA My adult son, my adult daughter – reflections of mothers of children with profound intellectual disabilities ...................................................... 255 EDYTA ZIERKIEWICZ, BEATA CYTOWSKA Doing and undoing gender by women with intellectual disabilities ... 271 HANNA KRAUZE-SIKORSKA Children and adolescents with a chronic condition in the public school space – in search of an effective model of psychopedagogical support .......................................................................................................... 295 MAŁGORZATA PAPLIŃSKA The Competence of Teacher Assistants in the Context of Working with Visually Impaired Students. Needs of the Environment and the Vision of Change ......................................................................................... 319 MONIKA SKURA The perception of people with a physical disability towards those with a different kind of disability .............................................................. 343 SARA KNAPIK-SZWEDA The Significance of Qualitative Research – Arts-based Research in Special Needs Education and Music Therapy ......................................... 369 Contents 5 MARZENNA ZAORSKA, ADAM ZAORSKI Issues related to the statutory ban on eugenic abortion in Poland (in the opinion of representatives of the community of people with disabilities) ................................................................................................... 389 BOGUSŁAW ŚLIWERSKI On the phenomenon of scientific work of Zbyszko Melosik ................. 405 OLGA CHRZANOWSKA The role of sketching within the process of creative maturation of an architect in 21 st century – sketching from nature in cognitive develop- ment ............................................................................................................... 443 6 Contents Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy NUMER 26/2019 Introduction Multithreading of (special) education: multi-facetedness; multi-leveledness; diversity; non-uniformity; variety; universality; versatility; complexity; heterogeneity 1 Presenting you with the next issue of Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Education, I was wondering about its theme. And the longer I analysed the texts submitted by the authors, the more I tried to organize them according to a personally acceptable “key”, the more I became convinced of the increasing diversity of the prob- lems undertaken in special education and beyond. Hence multi- threading (and its synonyms) that I have mentioned is to reflect the character of this publication. However, there is something else that links all these texts. It is a focus on man and his multidimensionali- ty, in the context of needs, possibilities, limitations, age, choices, action, creativity. Such a concentration of scientific texts is in line with what Waldemar Furmanek wrote, pointing out that “the view on the necessity of recognizing the primacy of man (homocentrism) and adopting the assumption of the polyparadigmatic nature of ______________ 1 Synonyms of the word multithreading, <https://synonim.net/synonim/wie low%C4%85tkowo%C5%9B%C4%87>. 8 Foreword research is slowly breaking through in the opinions of researchers”2. He then went on to say, “We are going back to the four questions concerning man by I. Kant, who in the Critique of Pure Reason , when asking about man, asks: What can I know? What should I know? What can I expect? What (who) is man? (Kant 1957, p. 548)”.3 And despite the paradigmatic changes in special education 4 ori- ented on humanist concepts emphasizing the full and equal partici- pation of each person in all dimensions of individual and social life, researchers continue to explore how these assumptions are imple- mented. The analyses and research results presented in this issue are situated in relation to social change and a deep appreciation of the diversity of the world in which we operate. You will find an- swers and further questions about the condition of man (in his or her life continuum), not only those with diagnosis of disability, in the context of his or her need for self-fulfilment, passion for creating and looking for opportunities to fulfil social roles, substantive and psychological support, educational and life situation. I hope that reading the texts will provide you with inspiration to look for solutions that will contribute to building personal compe- tences of each person (including the still small one, still dependent) in the area of self-awareness, self-regulation and motivation, so that they can fully realize themselves in life. The first part of the texts concerns the heterogeneity of problems of people with intellectual disabilities. As Katarzyna Parys and Sła- womir Olszewski point out in their text: “The content we discuss is valued ambiguously in
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