The Lublin School of Special Education - Tradition and Contemporary Challenges (50th Anniversary)

Abstract

The Lublin school of special education, celebrating its 50th anniversary, was established by Professor Zofia Sękowska, a distinguished employee of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. The distinctive features of this modern and creative concept of special psychopedagogy are interdisciplinarity, deep humanism and anthropocentrism. These features are reflected both in the methodology of scientific research, solving complex research and diagnostic problems, developing concepts, and methods of influencing special education in the area of education, therapy, rehabilitation, and social rehabilitation. Scientific research carried out at the Department of Special Psychopedagogy and Special Sociopedagogy of UMCS is a continuation and creative development of the living and current traditions of the Lublin school of special education, emphasizing the inextricable relationship and the key importance of psychological, pedagogical, and sociological problems in the theory and practice of special education.