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Leisure Time as a Window to Inclusion.  Constructions of Participation and Exclusion for Adult Institutionalized People With ‘Mental Disabilities’.

Term: 01/2013 to 03/2015

Project management and coordination: AP Dr phil.  Hendrik Trescher

Implementing institutions: Office for Diversity and Teaching Development; Praunheimer Werkstätten gGmbH

Associates/Partners/Contributors:  Praunheimer Werkstätten gGmbh

Research assistant(s): Stefanie Schneider, BA, Michael Börner, BA

Financing: Praunheimer Werkstätten gGmbh

Project description:

Employing a multi-stage, multi-method research setting, possibilities were discussed as to how people with 'mental disabilities' can participate inclusively in the social structural sphere of 'leisure', or how people with 'mental disabilities' can be integrated into 'normal' leisure activities.  In doing so, a) principal possibilities and possibly associated manifest as well as (potential) latent barriers to participation were explored, b) the everyday life of people with "mental disabilities" and their needs were examined in terms of what possibilities/obstacles/desires etc. exist on the part of the recipients, and c) the role played by a care facility with regard to shaping the leisure and lives of the clients was subjected to critical scrutiny.