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The Importance of Anti-segregated-education for the Development of Relational Efficacy of Children with Mental Retardation

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2006, 7(4), pp.557-582
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Cheong, Eun 1

1영남대학교

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ABSTRACT

A human life can be progressed and achieved within continuous social relationships. In this sense social skills including linguistic skills, which play an important role in the construction of social relations, are crucial in education in general and more so in that of children with mental retardation in particular. This research seeks to consider relational efficacy in the context of 'attachment theory' as 'spatial theory'. It also discusses relational efficacy on the conceptual basis of 'enjoyment(jouissance)' which E. Levinas elaborated in his own theory. As a consequence, this research suggests that relational efficacy grows on the ground of the development of attachment, and that the progress of relational efficacy crucially affects individual feeling of happiness. It found that passiveness of people(children) with mental retardation develops not from the problems caused by impairment itself but from the experiences of pathological relations which the people(children) have been supposed to construct in the interrelationships with other people in society. It is therefore important to note that anti-segregated- education(inclusion) is necessary for developing relational efficacy both of children with mental retardation and normal children. It is also important to take the viewpoint that in the space of integrated education the object in a mutual relationship(the person with whom to construct relationship) should be considered as the object per se which is defined on Levinas' perspective of 'enjoyment' as essentially mutual.

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