| Summary: | The practical experience and theoretical description of social participation of families, having the disabled children, create the basis for searching for a concrete method of social involvement of parents in a child’s educational processes at a special school. In the doctoral research, psychosocial and educational peculiarities of a family, having a disabled child are analysed, using empowerment, conflict and communicative action theories; the constructivist theoretical background for educational help for family and salutogenesis approach are presented. The research aimed at answering such questions as: What psychological, educational and social features characterise the social participation of families of the disabled children? What are the strategies of social participation of parents? What traditions of parental participation and involvement in a child’s educational process are formed in the praxis of special education? How can the involvement of the disabled and their families be developed at special school? What should be the structure, the purposefulness and the dynamics of parental involvement? The object of the research is parental involvement in the educational process of a disabled child at special school as a strategy of social participation. The aim of the dissertational research was not only to identify the strategies of social participation of parents, but also to create and try the methodology of the development of social participation in practice. It was also... [to full text]
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