The discourse about upbringing and education of intellectually disabled children – analysis of selected Polish educational magazines which were printed from start of the XXth century till 1939 Cover Image

Dyskurs o wychowaniu i edukacji dzieci z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną – analiza wybranych polskich czasopism pedagogicznych od przełomu XIX/XX wieku do 1939 roku
The discourse about upbringing and education of intellectually disabled children – analysis of selected Polish educational magazines which were printed from start of the XXth century till 1939

Author(s): Kamila Gandecka
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Sociology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Zakład Historii Edukacji w Instytucie Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: upbringing; education; intellectual disability; pedagogical magazines

Summary/Abstract: Development of revival and rehabilitation theory and practice in Polish pedagogical circles begins to increase intensively in the interwar period. The researchers from various scientific disciplines, particularly from disabled pedagogy, sociology of upbringing,child psychiatry and genetics, are getting involved in the case of the upbringing and education of different disabilities. The discussion concerns important tasks such as: creating separate types of schools for disabled students, inventing appropriate programmes of educating pedagogical and medical staff, sorting out the terminology in the range of diagnosis and the proper selection of children with intellectual dysfunction, upbringing social awareness of intellectual disability. These cases have been imprinted for good inthe discussion about the upbringing and education of intellectually disabled children. It was conducted particularly by pedagogical magazines, which were printed from the start of the XXth century till 1939.

  • Issue Year: XII/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 155-173
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English, Polish