| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of the dissertation is to reveal the problems of the construction of dignity of people with disabilities as well as by implementing participatory action research to create strategies of self-development of consciousness enabling to strive for personal and/or social transformations in the aspect of the construction of dignity. Experiences of dignity of people with disabilities are based on their life-world, the structure of which consists of experiences of a disabled body, time lived with disability, lived spaces, lived relationships with other people and lived relation with oneself and God. Dignity of people with disabilities is complex not only in the sense of diversity of components of dignity but also by different disability experiences and interpretations. Experiences of dignity of people who participated in the research vary from perspectives of the disorienting dilemma of dignity based on negative interpretations of disability to positive perception of disability. The disorienting dignity dilemma lived by research participants based on internalised negative meanings of disability, fatalistic and naïve interpretations of disability reveals problems of the construction of dignity of people with disabilities and in this aspect reasons the need and necessity for self-development of consciousness. Therefore, on the ground of participatory action research important and significant to the theory and practice of educational sciences, strategies for self-development of consciousness were created and implemented on the empirical level; in general, they can be referred to as a dialogue (fatalistic and naive sharing of experiences of humiliation of dignity and recognition in group discussion), a critical reflection (critical reflection of dignity experiences and group discussions) and emancipatory transformative praxis (strengths-based activities striving for common aims). |
