Readiness Of People With Disabilities Towards Inclusive Learning In Higher Education

Abstract

The urgency of the stated problem in the article is due to the fact that at the present time the modern education in the whole world has a humanistic basis. Recognition of the individual’s self-worth leads to the search for ways of comprehensive development, socialization of people with disabilities as individuals and obtaining of a higher education which is becoming the main goal in their lives. The article is aimed at disclosing the content of diagnostic activities conducted with people with disabilities, to determine their motivation in receiving higher education, which includes an inclusive form, and through integration into a given public institution, the desire to adapt to the social environment as a whole. In the course of the research work the following methods were used: theoretical analysis of scientific, pedagogical, psychological and methodological literature and materials; generalization of the regulatory framework; systematization and generalization of pedagogical experience; psychological testing. The article presents the results of studying the aspiration of people with disabilities to receive higher education. In the process of the study, there were identified two main typological groups of subjects and the prevailing factors-motivators predetermining the direction of interest formation and the need for continuing education. The content of this article can be useful for professionals who interact with people with disabilities, for teachers of secondary special and higher educational institutions who work on the adaptive physical culture training.