Family as an Educational Environment of Child with Development Disabilities. Social Role of the Father as Guardian and Facilitator Cover Image

Rodzina jako środowisko wychowawcze dziecka z deficytami rozwoju. Społeczna rola ojca jako opiekuna i facylitatora
Family as an Educational Environment of Child with Development Disabilities. Social Role of the Father as Guardian and Facilitator

Author(s): Elżbieta Maria Minczakiewicz
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Zakład Historii Edukacji w Instytucie Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: family; educational environment; children with disabilities; deficits in development; relationships and ties; social role; motherhood; fatherhood

Summary/Abstract: The prepared text is a personal reflection on the structure and meaning of social relationships in contemporary families early twenty-first century, with particular emphasis on families with a child with symptoms of physical or intellectual disability. The major emphasis has been placed there for his father's social role, which in the social constellation which is the family, is sometimes not very clear, sometimes even marginalized, and most interesting families we underestimated the extent that it actually deserves. For drawing generalizations based on the assumed problems accumulated empirical material gathered through observation and interview about 500 families involved. For providing intelligence were both parents of a disabled child, as well as his siblings and other relatives. This properly collated and developed accordance with the suggestion of interested participants in the seminars for parents raising a child with disabilities development, helped to expose and develop a 12-theoretical models of structural and relational families, preferring certain attitudes towards the disabled child and his upbringing. Our results for which I made in the development, served me for a plot to show the very much appreciated and is vital in the life of a disabled child, his father's social role as a carer, friend and facilitator.

  • Issue Year: IV/2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 35-46
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English, Polish