The vignette as a tool for searching the knowledge of primary school students about disability

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Published: Jun 26, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/jret.8631
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Identification of disability Vignette Typical students
Μαρίνα Λουάρη
ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΉΜΙΌ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΑΣ
Abstract

Vignette is a picture or a description of a situation or a hypothetical scenario that causes questioning. Other than that, it may be used as a research tool. As we have already mentioned, it presents hypothetical situations and addresses direct questions to the participants in order to be collected data concerning their ideas and concepts. The battery of vignettes, used in the present study, was consisted of 12 pictures, which were accompanied by texts and were designed to assess students’ knowledge about the concept of "disability", before and after an intervention program for the improvement of their knowledge about "disability". In the survey involved 364 students of general schools (10-12 years), in which there were not students with disabilities. The selected schools were representative of the average urban population with the same socio-economic and cultural profile of the students. Data analysis revealed that students primarily associate the concept of "disability" only with physical disability and seem to be confused as regards other types of disability, such as sensory disability. Students also seem to have clearer view for students with Down syndrome, as facial features were those that guided their thinking. Students gave the lowest percentage of correct answers in the vignette related to the child with autism as only few students recognized him as a student with a disability, an expected finding according to literature. After the intervention the participants in the Experimental Group had developed a different perception about disability. They had acquired the appropriate knowledge in order to recognize people with disabilities, as they answered correctly in almost all of the questions of the post-test.

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Μαρίνα Λουάρη, ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΉΜΙΌ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΑΣ

Δρ Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, ΠΤΔΕ στο γνωστικό αντικείμενο Ειδική Αγωγή & Λογοτεχνία

Κάτοχος μετ/κου διπλώματος του Π.Θ. με τίτλο Παραγωγή Εκπαιδευτικού Υλικού με τις Νέες Τεχνολογίες 

Θέση Εργασίας: Προισταμένη ΚΕΔΔΥ Μαγνησίας

Διδάσκουσα στην ΑΣΠΑΙΤΕ Εκπαιδευτική Ψυχολογία και Θεωρίες Επαγγελματικής Συμβουλευτικής & Λήψης Απόφασης

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