Beata Borowska-Beszta

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• PhD, Habilitation Degree in Social Sciences
• Professor of NCU at Nicolaus Copernicus University

Disability hate speech is still not recognized in Poland as a significant social, legal, or political issue. The reason for this refusal to admit the presence of disability hate speech in Poland can be directly linked to the Communist period from 1945 to 1989 and its after-effects–widespread prejudices which remain today. Communist ideology involve...

The visibility and invisibility of disability are present in various cultures. This study aims to analyze the invisibility and visibility of disability in Japan and Poland, focusing on the similarities and differences between the two countries. Cultural analyses of historical, social, and political backgrounds indicate the transition process from i...

Disability as a human condition has aroused the interest of philosophers and theologians from ancient times, through the Middle Ages, to the present day. The article attempts to demonstrate the development and continuity of Christian views on the phenomenon of disability by examining the philosophical and theological thoughts of St. Augustine and S...

The retail payments market is developing, and the implementation of digital payments has been one of the trends in consumer finance worldwide. This is the first study to jointly examine the perception of digital payment methods and financial services’ role, for consumers with and without disabilities. First, based on a nationwide survey on Internet...

ABSTRAKT Artykuł stanowi przegląd aplikacji mobilnych przeznaczonych dla osób z niepełnosprawnościami. W toku analiz wyodrębniono kilka podstawowych grup aplikacji, kluczowych w kontekście wspierania codziennego niezależnego życia osób z niepełnosprawnościami, tworzenia dostępu w społeczeństwie i kul-turze, upodmiotowienia, przydatnych w codziennej...

'Homelessness. Report on pedagogical qualitative research.' Our three authors' book (with autonomous three parts) written in Polish was published jointly with two colleagues from the IES FPSS of Nicolaus Copernicus University after the implementation of the 24-month IDUB NCU qualitative project (2021-2022). The entire (worthy of consideration) mono...

The article is a qualitative research report written from the theoretical perspective of disability studies. Qualitative research, case study, carried out for the purposes of this article, concerns learning about disabilities acquired in husbands a war veterans by their wives. The place of research is military culture, while the aim is to understan...

The presented report on cultural disability studies with the use of photo-ethnography concerns the research of cultural inclusion through the prism of material culture and access artifacts, constructed in 15 historic Marian Sanctuaries of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, parishioners, pilgrims or tourists with physical disabilities. The researc...

Mężczyźni bezdomni o aktywnościach codziennych: Etnograficzne studia przypadków Niniejszy artykuł stanowi etnograficzne studia przypadków aktywności codziennych podejmo-wanych przez 4 bezdomnych mężczyzn w wieku 52-72 lat, zamieszkujących w schronisku. Pyta-niem badawczym, postawionym w niniejszym raporcie z badań, było: jakie aktywności codzienne...

The subject of this secondary qualitative data research was related to researching and understanding the issue of helplessness in the lives of homeless males addicted to alcohol. The aim of the study was to learn about the core category of helplessness according to the opinions of 10 homeless Poles. The research was based on 3 secondary datasets fr...

The aim of this article is to present the results of qualitative research, 5 case studies of husbands with Alzheimer’s disease and the image of daily home-based care for them, provided in family homes by wives. The research question posed in this report was: what is home- -based care for a husband with Alzheimer’s disease from the wife’s perspectiv...

Celem artykułu jest prezentacja wyników badań jakościowych pięciu studiów przypadków mężów z chorobą Alzheimera oraz obrazu codziennej opieki nad nimi, jaką w domach rodzinnych zapewniają im ich żony. Pytanie badawcze postawione w prezentowanym raporcie brzmiało: Czym jest opieka domowa nad mężem z chorobą Alzheimera z perspektywy żony? Wyniki bada...

The following article is an excerpt from the entire qualitative, ethnographic research report on the challenges existing at work of 9 supporting teachers in inclusive classrooms of 2 public schools in Poland. The research project was carried out as part of the master's thesis of the first author of the article under the supervision of the second au...

The phenomena of disabilities in the Arab world can be viewed from various perspectives, considering historical times, epistemological programmes and theoretical models. This article is a theoretical review and comparative data analysis of the problems regarding the evolution of attitudes and current concept of disability and theoretical assumption...

Reeducation of veterans with acquired disability – traumatic brain injury (TBI). A theoretical assumptions and practical solutions Among contemporary monographs and foreign scientific articles related to the issue of supporting disabled soldiers, the most attention is paid to the comprehensive rehabilitation of war veterans with acquired cognitive...

The following article is written from the perspective of disability studies (Głodkowska, Pągowska 2017) and concentrates on cultural ableism as a dominant pattern present in Poland during the Iron Curtain (1945-1989). The authors are of the opinion that the conditions of forced functioning of the Polish society behind the Iron Curtain generated cur...

This study is a theoretical analysis of two dimension of ethnography in social sciences, perceived as educational and re-educational ethnography, and related to three contexts of thinking of it as of a method, methodology and product from the social research, not necessarily a written one. Particular attention has been focused on theoretical assump...

The presented research is a microethnographic report from a visual ethnography undertaken in May 2016, in 6 Japanese schools and 1 adult support center with disabilities located on island Kyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture. The study deals with a issues of the educational material culture and refers to the study of space and school artifacts designed in...

A qualitative secondary data analysis outlined the key causes and problems of everyday life of 12 women who marginalize themselves in the care home, from various activities and social contacts. The results of the research indicated two main groups of causes: self-reeducation about experienced own losses and silent rebellion. The article is a report...

Katolicy-mężczyźni z niepełnosprawnością fizyczną o koncepcjach niepełnosprawności w kontekście praktyk religijnych. Wtórna analiza danych jakościowych Summary: The article presents a report on the secondary analysis of raw qualitative data regarding the concept of disability from the perspective of 16 males with congenital physical disability (spi...

The article presents the problem of conducting interviews for research and educational purposes with elderly people. It is not the purpose of the article to analyze the process of collecting interviews for clinical purposes in medical sciences. The article refers only to the epistemological issues in social sciences. The importance of proper interv...

Beata Borowska-Beszta, Ohyake (公) czy watakushi (私) i puraibashii (プラ イバシー) ? Przestrzenie i artefakty systemu edukacji specjalnej i inkluzyjnej w Japonii: Raport z wizualnej mikroetnografii edukacyjnej [Ohyake (公) czy watakushi (私) i puraibashii (プライバシー) ? Space and Artifacts of Special Education and Inclusive Education Facilities in Japan: Report...

The article deals with advanced technology and its basic applications used to support military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), presenting it in the context of military culture, or more narrowly, the culture of soldiers who have become veterans. The text discusses problems with defi ning the disability in veterans with PTSD acqu...

Preliminary report on ethnographic research conducted by a team of 4 researchers from Poland in Scotland with the participation of group of economic, migrants from Poland in, employed legally in home-based care in Edinburgh & Livingston. The project was developed and undertaken from April 2017 to April 2018. The main research question was: What kin...

Studies on disability culture have been conducted since the mid-90's, by American scholars, and since 2000, by the British ones. Researches on this topic states that disability is a separate culture and that there are different voices, some of approval and some of disapproval, among persons with disabilities. The article discusses, describes and ju...

The article is a secondary qualitative data analysis report from cultural perspective on 3 generated in emic perspective categories called: qualities of bonds learned, supported and transmitted by Polish families having adults with intellectual disabilities and conditions that need home-based care for their entire lives. Performed secondary data an...

Prejudice and bias are described as an embarrassing phenomenon of research work in social sciences. They concern both quantitative and qualitative research. Authors working in both antagonistic paradigms such as positivist, post-positivist and constructivism, interpretivism generally point to the main patterns showing the aspects of bias. They usua...

The main purpose of the entire qualitative research report illustrated in the article was to analyze and describe generated after fieldwork the eight dark sides patterns related to the process of forming the relationships and bonds between the special education 6 undergraduate students of Faculty of Education Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus Universit...

Article presents nethnographic qualitative research report partially based on the research completed in 2017 as thesis at the Chair of Disability Studies, Faculty of Education Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. The research was conducted within 4 online open groups, organizational cultures of families with children, youth or adults...

The paper presents a review of concepts of masculinity with disability related to work, employment and unemployment problems. The authors evoke foreign and Polish research paying attention to a number of studies that have focused on the issue, exploring gender differences in the society [1]. Specifically, general definitions of masculinity within c...

Aborcja eugeniczna (aborcja ze względu na niepełnosprawność) w opiniach polskich studentów studiów uniwersyteckich II stopnia na kierunku pedagogika specjalna. Raport z etnograficznego studium przypadku Poniższy artykuł jest raportem z etnograficznego studium przypadku dotyczącego konceptualizacji aborcji eugenicznej przez 22 studentów kierunku ped...

This article reconstructs and reinterprets the unique qualitative research conducted by Wanda Szuman, an educator and andragogue specializing in special needs education from Torun. In her research, she dealt with the development and functioning of two Polish boys defined as ‘feral children’. The author carried out the case study and action research...

The paper presents the report analysis of the research undertaken in collaboration with male self-advocates with the usage of a focus group methodology. In the explanatory study the researchers explore topics of masculinity conceptualization of 9 males with intellectual disabilities. The main research question was: how do males with intellectual di...

"Feral children’ and provoked psychosomatic otherness. The reconstruction of the case study conducted by Wanda Szuman (1955) concerning two boys raised in extreme isolation up to five years of age" This article reconstructs and reinterprets the unique qualitative research conducted by Wanda Szuman, an educator and andragogue specializing in special...

Beata Borowska-Beszta, Wkład antropologii kulturowej w studia nad niepełnosprawnością [Contribution of Cultural Anthropology to the Disability Studies]. Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej, nr 15, Poznań 2016. Pp. 15-41. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-391X Interdisciplinary studies on disability are conducted in the worl...

According to Morgan (1981)there are various theoretical paradigms of masculinity. Author believes that most of the social sciences concepts is about men, however, research on masculinity itself is relatively new. A similar situation exists in the areas of conceptualizing masculinity and intellectual disability. The intersection of masculinity and d...

W dniu 12 marca 2015 roku odbylo sie w Wydziale Nauk Pedagogicznych UMK I Torunskie Miedzynarodowe Seminarium Studiow nad Niepelnosprawnością. Tegoroczne, marcowe seminarium bylo zatytulowane „Wielowymiarowośc problemow pedagogiki specjalnej”. Seminarium jest pierwszym w cyklu planowanych na kolejne lata, wieloletnich spotkan naukowych, stanowiącyc...

In this article I analyze the problem of paradigmatic chaos and the role of research paradigms in qualitative research projects. I use in the title of the paper the metaphor of Godzilla (Gojira) from Japanese culture to illustrate the vastness and depth of the issues. Particular attention I dedicate to problems arising from reducing the role of res...

Tresci zawarte w artykule dotycza fenomenu niepełnosprawnosci w rodzinach generacyjnych, w których rodzice oraz członkowie rodzin podjeli zadanie wychowania i wieloletniego prowadzenia ku i przez dorosłosc dzieci z niepełnosprawnoscia. Tekst składa sie z czesci wprowadzajacej w pro- blematyke sytuacji rodzin generacyjnych jako srodowisk opieki i...

This article is a review of two case studies of males with psychosomatic diversities and the valorized international fame because of their artistic expressions. They both were born in 19th century in Europe. The paper is not a clinical study but is an andragogic analysis of the lives of two famous artists: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter...

Qualitative research on the disability cultures and environments that support or perform lifelong education of adults with disabilities in Poland are carried out intensively since the late 90s of the twentieth century. This paper clarifies the dilemmas and delicate issues while the rapport process of qualitative research and associated with collect...

Analiza treści wybranych polskich publikacji naukowych dotyczących osób dorosłych z niepełnosprawnością pozostających pod opieką rodziny generacyjnej ukazuje fragmentaryczność podejmowanych badań, które nie uwzględniają w pełni specyfiki życia osoby z niepełnosprawnością, jak i jej rodziny . Wyniki badań po części przedstawiają rodzaje niepełnospra...

This study is a review of two categories in social science and qualitative, ethnographic researches as theory use and theorizing activity.

This paper contains a review of theoretical assumptions and practical application of the qualitative research technique called shadowing. Paper includes also example of shadowing technique used in researches undertaken in foreign country – France designed as following the educational consultant from French Academie de Lyon, Louis La Roch (all perso...

This review contains the analysis of contemporary Polish discourses on females with disabilities. Special attention has been directed towards the femininity of women with intellectual or physical disabilities, and discourses conducted by special educators, adult educators, psychologists, sociologists, cultural anthropologists, philologists, artists...

Care and support for elderly persons is crucial issue for any cultural ground and any country. Special pedagogue (Special educator) in contemporary Polish university realities is person who has learnt while studies and qualified about support of persons with disabilities during life cycle. This mean, special pedagogue is or can be prepared to suppo...

Tekst opublikowany 7. Listopada 2014 roku na polskim Portalu Informacyjnym Osób Niepełnosprawnych PION.pl, jako część udziału w projekcie PFRON pt. "Rzetelna informacja zamiast dyskryminacji" w 2014 roku. Link: Kultury niepełnosprawności w kontekstach teoretycznych i realiach badawczych -szkice analizy strukturalnej Wprowadzenie Poniższy tekst jest...

Family is a place of development and informal lifelong learning also in situations of crises, associated with illness or disability of its members. This study is non-clinical, ethno-educational case study of informal learning in Polish family supporting older female, who at age of 76 was diagnosed as having very-late-onset of schizophrenia. Case st...

Integration (inclusion) is the important issue and demand for any education system world wide. It assumes inclusion of children and youth with various disabilities to the education system. Polish system of inclusive education is supported by bright theoretical ideas of inclusive teaching and shadows during implementations within educational setting...

Ethnography of lifestyle of the culture of adults with developmental disabilities living in Torun The book is the comprehensive, qualitative research report based on over two years ethnographic research (2007-2009) conducted in the city Toruń, and in area of north-central Poland, Central-Eastern Europe. Qualitative research project was financially...

Disability in cultural and theoretical contexts. This book is an invitation to a discussion of disability in relation to the culture. Originally was written as part of an extensive theoretical research report carried out within the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Grant No. 0795/B/H03/2007/33 devoted to the lifestyle of the culture of ad...

Wanda Szuman - teacher and special andragog - sketches for a portrait. Writing a biography can be a work even for a lifetime. The proposed book is an invitation to get to know Wanda Szuman as a person, Polish teacher and andragog, a friend born and lived in Toruń since 1890-1994.. Recognition is a supplement to the existing portrait in the litera...

Echoes of expression. Cultural therapy in special andragogy. I discuss in this book concepts and forms of cultural therapies from theoretical and practical points of view, including treatments as implemented in Polish day care facilities by educators, teachers, special educators, andragogs, artists, occupational therapists to adults with developm...

Ethnography for therapists (special educators) – methodological sketches. (2005) - follows a natural consequence of the synchronization of two major research objectives. One is scientific and the other one is based on meeting the speaking for themselves needs of people with disabilities in studied environments. While penetrating the scientific lite...

I uploaded only my chapter 5.5. - ethnographic part of the collaborative action research report, undertaken in Brother's Albert Foundation, complex of day - care and stationary facilities, near Cracov, Poland in 1998-1999. Entire research report was published in 2001, in a book entitled: "Forming a community in the Brother's Albert Foundation in Ra...