Disability and Ethics: A Parent Action in Poland

• Main Author: Agnieszka Lena Licznerska
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Lower Silesia 2016-12-01
• Series: Forum Oświatowe
• Subjects: nauczanie włączające; niepełnosprawni; akcja protestacyjna rodziców; współczesne poglądy; alternatywny sposób widzenia
• Online Access: http://forumoswiatowe.pl/index.php/czasopismo/article/view/463

Inclusive education is being introduced into Poland. To be successful, educators must think critically about disability and learn what the Poles think. Iris Marion Young argues that notions how to criticize a society find their background in either experience or reflection on the society. In 2014 the author read Janina Paradowska’s description of an action by parents who took their disabled children to a sitdown strike in the house of Polish parliament. Paradowska, the late famous Polish journalist, wrote she had mixed feelings about the event. The paper argues the injustice hidden in this phrase, based on the framework of the current view described by Iris Murdoch, who suggests an alternative way of thinking about experiences extending far beyond our mind. Disabled people have always been marginalized by the European culture, and now disabled children are to be part of the inclusive education. What factors might affect their learning?