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What Lithuanian pupils learn about disability : analysis of attitudes and content of textbooks
Type of publication
Straipsnis kitoje duomenų bazėje / Article in other database (S4)
Author(s)
Šiaulių universitetas | |
Pocevičienė, Rasa | Šiaulių universitetas |
Title
What Lithuanian pupils learn about disability : analysis of attitudes and content of textbooks
Is part of
Caught in the web or lost in the textbook? 8th international conference on learning and educational media Paris : Jouve, 2006
Date Issued
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2006 |
Publisher
Paris : Jouve, 2006
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Extent
p. 447-455
Field of Science
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to reveal how stereotyped representations of disability are manifested in school curriculum through the textbook content and the attitudes of participants of education. Research questions of this study were: How is disability represented in Lithuanian textbooks? What is the real discourse--that of participation or of exclusion--formed by the textbooks? What is the intentional learning curriculum of children with special needs, i.e., how do the participants of curriculum--teachers and students--describe it? (Methodology) In carrying out the content analysis, texts and pictures of textbooks were analyzed. 27 Lithuanian language and literature textbooks and 9 Ethics textbooks for Years 1 to 10 were examined, in total 36 textbooks. The same content analysis of oral and written opinions of teachers and students was performed. Semi-open, oral, individual and group interviews among 70 teachers from two districts were conducted. Additionally, the same type of group interviews and discussions were conducted with 231 students from 45 schools. (Results) Information about disabled people and SEN children conveyed to students at school is essentially negative. Textbook texts are often discriminating. They do not develop students' tolerance and understanding of disabled people and SEN children. In the textbooks disabled people are presented, as behaving in a strange way, looking different, they are being ridiculed and on the whole bad features are ascribed to them. In the Lithuanian language and literature textbooks and the Ethics textbooks, the disabled person is seldom presented, as an active and equal member of society. In the pictures, which also send a message about disabled people, almost all of them are presented with visual disorders.[...]
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type::text::journal::journal article::research article
Language
Anglų / English (en)
Coverage Spatial
Prancūzija / France (FR)
Description
Caught in the Web or lost in the textbooks? : Eighth International Conference on Learning and Educational Media / ed. by Éric Bruillard; Bente Aamotsbakken; Susanne V. Knudsen; Mike Horsley. IARTEM-8, The International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media