Interdyscyplinarne studia nad niepełnosprawnością – sprzymierzeniec czy wróg pedagogiki specjalnej?
Interdisciplinary disability studies – the ally or enemy of the special education?

Summary/Abstract: The difficulty in the relationship between the disability studies and the special education is first of all the different understanding of the role of the institutional special education (schools) in the historically and culturally recognized development of the medical and social model of disability. Special school used to be regarded as an important factor of the “institutionalization of disability”, strengthening an oppressive and exclusive practice of diagnosis and therapy. On the basis of disability studies the values of social inclusion are emphasized as an appropriate educational model in the context of promoting self-determination and development potential of people with disabilities. Modern special education, while not denying its own traditions of academic and scientific achievements, uses theoretical and methodological base of interdisciplinary disability studies, looking towards implementing of new research projects to justify its own paradigmatic change.

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