Warsztaty edukacyjne jako metoda zmiany postaw wobec osób niepełnosprawnych

Abstract

The aim of the research was to determine if participation in educational workshops could change the attitudes of secondary school students towards disabled people. It also checked if the level of the attitude change would differ according to the level of social intelligence of the examined. A group of 186 students of the second and third grade of secondary school took part in two-stage workshops. During the first stage, the attitudes towards the disabled were measured with the use of the PWK-O test. Students were divided into those with high and low level of social intelligence (1st and 2nd tercile) on the basis of the Retis test. During the second stage, students divided in such a way participated in randomly chosen workshops dealing either with the abilities of disabled people or with the abilities of people without disabilities. The attitudes towards the disabled has bee re-measured after conducting the workshops. The results have shown the expected effect of participation in the educational workshops in the area of the change of attitude towards disabled people. It also turned out that the level of the change of attitude was higher in the case of people with low level of social intelligence regardless of their sex or previous contact with disabled people.