Transferring pupils with profound intellectual disabilities from special schools. Preliminary studies considered in the context of pupil resistance

Abstract

The article presents the author’s preliminary research on the phenomenon of transferring pupils with profound intellectual disability from special schools to rehabilitation, education and upbringing centres. Directors of centres from eight voivodships took part in the study, giving opinions on the situation of pupils, including the reasons for changing the institution. The presented analyses enable the identification of categories of pupil behaviour defined in the literature as resistance to school. This study is located in the paradigm of critical pedagogy, as well as critical emancipation, which allows the recognition of elements, phenomena and activities that impede the proper functioning of pupils in the school environment.