engleski

From a deaf typesetter to National Centre for Higher Education of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing: How one more idea of Ivan Šegota grew into institutional strategy

Strategic orientation of the University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine toward prophiling into a referal regional institution for deaf education, has for several years been a known fact within the Faculty and in a broader community. Important from the historical perspective of the development of this initiative, its content and range of its realisation, but unknown to many, remains its beginning, rightly ascribed ot Professor Ivan Šegota (1938-2011), who for a long time had headed Department of Social Sciences. The first evidenced trace of Šegota's interest in the deaf at Faculty of Medicine dates from the academic year 2002/2003, when elective course on "How to communicate with deaf patients" was launched. After a few years of teaching that course, after the organisation of a round table on "Bioethical aspects of communication with deaf patients" within the frame of Rijeka Days of Bioethics in 2006, and the following proceedings, the idea of Ivan Šegota grew up in 2007 into a scientific project financed by Croatian Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports ("Clinical bioethics: education in communicating with deaf patients", No. 062-0000000-1345), resulting in the textbook entitled The Deaf and Medical Sign Language (by Ivan Šegota and collaborators) from 2010. In parallel with the abovementioned events, consciousness matures within the Faculty administration on the long-term importance and necessity of institutional affirmation under the slogan "University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine – a Friend of the Deaf." Launched has been a continuous international collaboration with the American Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as the initiative of establishing a Croatian National Centre for Higher Education of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. This paper will offer a chronology of the described process, and try to detect and define its key characteristics which will help shape the steps of development of an idea into the strategy of the University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine toward the deaf.

faculty of Medicine; Rijeka. Ivan Šegota; Deaf; sign language; highre education

nije evidentirano