Over the past years, the attitude towards the disabled people in the society has
been constantly changing: 2003 was announced to be the year of the Disabled. New laws
are being passed to help the disabled integrate into the society and find their place in the
labor market. However, not only the laws help the disabled to integrate into the society
and first of all into the professional field. Nowadays economic and political situation in
Lithuania is not very favorable, and it was estimated that in 2003 only 10 percent of the
disabled people in Lithuania were employed. Taking into consideration that 52.2 percent
of all the disabled are working-age people, this shows that unemployment within this
social group reaches 78 percent.
In this paper, I have been trying to show the need of disabled people with
mobility problems to learn, their current possibilities of doing this, and the legal basis
regulating this matter. In the changing environment, lifelong learning is becoming more
and more important, but there is still too little scientific research done with regard to the
disabled people. There is very little research data on the attitude of the adult disabled
towards continuing learning. This data is patchy and not systematic. This is why I
decided to choose and analyze this particular aspect.
There are very few disabled people learning in the educational
institutions for adults. In this research, it became clear that their motivation is very
low and problematic... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050621_222504-21324 |
| Date | 21 June 2005 |
| Creators | Zenkevičiūtė, Nijolė |
| Contributors | Gaigalienė, Marytė, Dukynaitė, Rita, Galkienė, Alvyra, Žibėnienė, Gintautė, Survutaitė, Dalia, Barkauskaitė, Marija, Guoba, Andrius, Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050621_222504-21324 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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