Description

• Title:
  The Microworld of Differentness of Adults with Intellectual Disability: A Research Report
• Creator:
  Gutowska, Anna
• Description:
  The present paper is an attempt to describe the phenomenon of differentness experienced by persons with intellectual disability. The author presents the results of research which forms a part of a larger research project concerning social worlds of adults with intellectual disability. Kathy Chamaz’s methodology of constructiveinterpretative grounded theory has been utilised both as a strategy of collecting research material, and as a method of its analysis. The group of respondents consists of 14 adults with intellectual disability attending to the Communal Home of Mutual Aid, and their carers (among them parents and workers of the Home). The results show differentness as a phenomenon experienced by almost all persons with intellectual disability.;
  The text is an attempt to present the phenomenon of experiencing otherness by adult people with mental disability. The author presents survey results which are a part of a bigger project researching the microworlds of adults with intellectual disability. In the research, both as the strategy of collecting the research materials and the method of their analysis, the methodology of constructing grounded theory by Kathy Charmaz was used. 14 adults with intellectual disability, attendees of the Community Centre of Self-Help, were researched, as well as 14 attendants (including parents and the centre’s employees). The results showed otherness as a specific phenomenon experienced by all the surveyed people with intellectual disability.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2018.09.09
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  ARTICLES;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  pol;
  eng
• Source:
  Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej; Nr 17 (2017); 159-177;
  2300-391X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ikps/article/view/14297/13964 ;http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ikps/article/view/14297/14693
• Subject:
  otherness;
  adult people with intellectual disability;
  differentness;
  adults with intellectual disability
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ikps/article/view/14297
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other