Striving for full subjectivity of the intellectually disabled in the artistic culture (part I) Cover Image

Podmiotowość osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną w kulturze artystycznej (część I)
Striving for full subjectivity of the intellectually disabled in the artistic culture (part I)

Author(s): Leszek Ploch
Subject(s): Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo OR TWP w Szczecinie
Keywords: subjectivity; diagnosis; animator; artistic culture; intellectual disability

Summary/Abstract: The subjectivity in the artistic culture should mean constant, gradually growing, full, authenticand limitless openness towards a child, a young person and then an elderly intellectually disabledperson, and consequently the entire environment of animators, teachers and therapists – the mainsupporters in accomplishment of their aims, functions and tasks involving creative stimulation.Their coexistence in the artistic culture is supposed to be free from any pressures and limitations andform an entirety of multidimensional proposals, manners and forms supporting the process of growingup of the intellectually disabled to fulfilment of their humanity without violating their subjectivity.This paper focused on the necessity of increasing the qualifications of those involved in conductingartistic activities with the intellectually disabled in the aspect of diagnostic activities and then,based on this, planning a vision of artistic inclusion of this group of charges and their subjectivetreatment. The author analysed the findings of pilot studies aimed at checking the knowledge level ofone hundred educators and animators in their basic scope of realization of pedagogic diagnosis duringartistic activities.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 77-87
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English, Polish