Wykluczenie kulturalne osób Głuchych i słabosłyszących w świecie kultury i muzeów
Cultural exclusion of Deaf and hard of hearing persons in the world of the culture and museums

Author(s): Agnieszka Kołodziejczak
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Polish sign language; Deaf Culture; exclusion of deaf from culture; the Group of Deaf Artists; Encyclopaedia of Art in PJM, GAG Lexicon
Summary/Abstract: Hearing persons have a free touch with World of the Culture and Art. The article deals with the problems of Deaf and hard of hearing persons, who through the partial or complete lack of the hearing have a limited access to culture (theatre, exhibitions with the guide, museums, libraries, etc.)? It results in lack of interest with involvement in the culture, even if the cultural offer is interesting and rich. However, the situation is changing on better. What effective action should be ta ken? The article is taking issues of excluding deaf persons from information about cultural actions of cultural institutes in Poland, is discussing essential stereotypes of the approach towards deaf persons, diversity of the deaf community and is taking into account statistics of the involvement of deaf persons in the culture.

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