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The world of developed economies looks at the problems of people with disabilities from a technical, social, psychological and informational perspective. Impacts in favour of people with disabilities are most often equated with the removal of barriers and integration. Nowadays, virtually every form of social and economic life should take in account inclusion and removal of barriers. Urban planning, the design of buildings, communication networks and the products, tools can be done from the perspective of removing barriers for people with disabilities. It is crucial to promote a way of thinking aimed at taking into account the needs of people with disabilities in the creation of all new civil...
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An ideal society in which persons with disabilities can fully participate on the basis of equal rights and obligations with able-bodied ones is both a goal and a task of special pedagogy. It is also a dream of people with disabilities, their families, and special educators, motivating them to various activities, especially of a social nature. One of the main foundations of such a society is the autonomy of people with disabilities, which is traditionally associated with subjectivity in this scientific discipline. However, in psychology, especially in Kazimierz Dąbrowski’s theory of positive disintegration, it is related to authenticity. Expanding the reflection on the autonomous functioning of people with disabilities to include this feature may be associated with a change in the perception of their role in social life.
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Emerging from the internationally recognised Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane conference series, the chapters in this book offer wide-ranging critiques of that most pervasive of ideas, 'normal'. In particular, they explore the precarious positions we are presented with and, more often than not, forced into by 'normal', and its operating system, 'normalcy' (Davis, 2010). They are written by activists, students, practitioners and academics and offer related but diverse approaches. Importantly, however, the chapters also ask, what if increasingly precarious encounters with, and positions of, marginality and non-normativity offers us a chance (perhaps the chance) to critically explore the pos...