IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE REALIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION IN SERBIA Cover Image

ЗНАЧАЈ ОДНОСА ДРУШТВА ПРЕМА ОСОБАМА СА СМЕТЊАМА У РАЗВОЈУ ЗА РЕАЛИЗАЦИЈУ ОБРАЗОВНЕ ИНКЛУЗИЈЕ У СРБИЈИ
IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE REALIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION IN SERBIA

Author(s): Sanja Dimoski, Gordana Nikolić
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Sociology of Education
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: persons with disabilities; educational inclusion; social attitudes;

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the social attitude towards persons with disabilities and the importance of this relationship for the implementation of educational inclusion in Serbia. The society attitude is discussed through the attitudes towards persons with disabilities, and attitudes towards educational inclusion. Persons with disabilities occupy a marginalized position that is a multiple determined.Education of this group have a significant impact on the process of marginalization - poor education deepens, quality education helps to overcome marginalized social positions. Attitude towards persons with disabilities are characterized by the presence of bias, lack of information and rare contacts. Research in our community do not give consistent results, and there is also tendency of respondents to give socially acceptable answers. Assessment of attitudes and work on the development of more tolerant attitudes towards persons with disabilitiesisare essential in creating the conditions for the implementation of educational inclusion. Educational inclusion, embedded in the philosophy of social model of disability, implies environment that adapts to persons with with disabilities.

  • Issue Year: 49/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 419-443
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Serbian