Technology for inclusion: mobile apps in supporting people with disabilities and socially excluded groups
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https://doi.org/10.34767/PP.2025.01.05Keywords:
mobile applications, social exclusion, social support, lifelong learning, educational environmentAbstract
Technology for inclusion: mobile apps in supporting people with disabilities and socially excluded groups The ongoing social changes can contribute to the minimalization of negative phenomena, such as social exclusion, marginalization, discrimination, or stigmatization. Technological solutions supporting educational activities in the context of lifelong learning and social work and people at risk of social exclusion are increasingly becoming an area of analysis regarding their usefulness, quality, differentiation, and adaptation to environmental and local contexts. This paper focuses on analyses of mobile applications as a tool for supporting people at risk of social exclusion in the context of lifelong, informal learning. The authors describe the theoretical, social, and educational background of crucial aspects of social exclusion. The authors also present examples of selected mobile applications that are important and valuable in enhancing the lifelong education of people from groups at risk of social exclusion. The authors focus on indicating those essential solutions that can be perceived as tools that help strengthen the emotional and psychological aspects of everyday life of people from socially marginalized groups. The authors also present mobile apps that are important in the context of everyday support for people with disabilities. The paper also emphasizes the importance of applications for developing parental and social competencies of people from groups at risk of social exclusion.
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