O pozycji badacza w poznawaniu świata osób niepełnosprawnych

What has been presented in the article is an authorial typology of researchers. It refers to the researcher’s relation to the examined section of reality (inside – outside), to the type of cognition (direct – indirect) and the research subject (facts – opinions on facts). As a result of juxtaposing these three variables, researchers were, a bit metaphorically, called: collector, hunter, witness, actor. In the second part of the text, the results were presented of the analysis of research procedures comprised in 110 articles concerning the examination of the disabled’s world. The notion of the world of disabled people is identified here not so much as the physically delineated environment reserved for them (e.g. institution of twenty-four-hour care or special school), but mostly as the space of limited possibilities of fulfilling life tasks. This is done with the assumption that this limitation mainly results from social attitudes and limited possibilities of the disabled person him/herself.What has been presented in the article is an authorial typology of researchers. It refers to the researcher’s relation to the examined section of reality (inside – outside), to the type of cognition (direct – indirect) and the research subject (facts – opinions on facts). As a result of juxtaposing these three variables, researchers were, a bit metaphorically, called: collector, hunter, witness, actor. In the second part of the text, the results were presented of the analysis of research procedures comprised in 110 articles concerning the examination of the disabled’s world. The notion of the world of disabled people is identified here not so much as the physically delineated environment reserved for them (e.g. institution of twenty-four-hour care or special school), but mostly as the space of limited possibilities of fulfilling life tasks. This is done with the assumption that this limitation mainly results from social attitudes and limited possibilities of the disabled person him/herself