The everyday life of a therapeutic common room seen through the eyes of a child

• Authors: Pietruńko, Renata

Abstracts

EN

In the article, I focus on the children’s perception of the everyday life in a therapeutic common room, where they spend time after school. In my research, I gave voice to small charges so that they could tell what this place is for them. I present the statements of children who spend a few hours in a common room every day. I place my research in the qualitative trend, in the research I use the analysis of personal documents created intentionally, these are written statements of children, which contain their assessment, thoughts, reflections and feelings they experience in relation to staying in a common room. Rarely from a child’s point of view, phenomena, places and processes are described. The aim of my research is to get to know, understand and describe the world of the common room seen through the eyes of children, participants of the offered support. In research I am looking for the answer to the question: How do children perceive everyday life in a therapeutic common room? I make the description according to the categories selected from children’s statements. From the analysis of children’s written statements regarding the perception of a common room by children, in which they spend daily time after school, the following conclusions arise. Children like to stay in a common room, they feel safe, have a good time and have fun, in their opinion a lot is happening in a common room, the common room is a very “cool” place. In a common room, children have many colleagues. They like a commonroom staff. They like to participate in activities organized in a common room, they have their favourite games. Children also like to spend time outdoors, on the playground, on Orlik, on walks and on trips. Children like a common room equipment, in particular toys and rooms, they especially like to stay in the kitchen.

Keywords

EN

therapeutic common room; care and education of children in the day-carecenter; everyday life of a common room seen through the eyes of a child

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 575(10)
• Pages: 39-47

Dates

published

2020-01-27

Contributors

author

Pietruńko, Renata