Intellectual impairment and experience of extreme poverty in a single parent family (case study in the Republic of Moldova context)
2023 (English)In: Armenian Journal of Special Education, ISSN 2579-2881, Vol. 7, no 2, p. 48-64Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The article analyses the issue of family resources in a family with a single father with mental retardation raising two adolescents in conditions of extreme poverty. The research methodology is based on the model of case study qualitative research within the phenomenological “life world” approaches. The study has an entire description of the father’s “life world” and structural, constituent and essential elements of his day-to-day parenting experience. It is shown that the family experience is struggling with extreme poverty within the conditions of severe social exclusion and governed by the father's family history with a class nature. Current family resources (health, education, social and economic) are characterised as being affected by different types of deficiency and dependence on external “donors”. The discussion is raising awareness of a role of special education in the process of structuring essential elements of the “life world” experience in such families,- in general, and conditions of extreme poverty,- in particular.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023. Vol. 7, no 2, p. 48-64
Keywords [en]
parenthood and fatherhood with intellectual impairments, family resources, extreme poverty, social exclusion
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Innovative Learning
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-43172DOI: 10.24234/se.v7i2.6OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-43172DiVA, id: diva2:1807233
Note
The research was implemented within the framework of the research project: “Human resources in poverty and disability: a family perspective” conducted by the scientific centre of Russian and Eurasian Research (UCRS) of Uppsala University with the financial support of the Vetenskaprådet/Sweden: VR 2011-41249-90774-43. First version of this article was published in Russian in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2014, in The Scientific Journal of the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. Series 19: Special Education and Psychology, ISSN 2310-0893, no 26, p. 433-441. The current publication is revised and translated into English.
2023-10-252023-10-252023-11-05Bibliographically approved