Mokwon University’s 26-Year Commitment to Disability Awareness Improvement Activities... Utilizing Online Platforms like UCC This Year
On the 19th, students from the Department of Social Welfare are filming a disability experience video at the College of Cultural Contents plaza at Mokwon University. Photo by Mokwon University
View original image[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Department of Sociology at Mokwon University is conducting online activities to improve awareness of disabilities in line with Disability Day on the 20th.
According to the university on the 19th, the disability awareness improvement activities have been led by sociology students since 1996 and have continued for 26 years. The purpose is to inform non-disabled people about the discrimination and disadvantages that people with disabilities experience in daily life and to improve policies and systems for people with disabilities.
So far, the disability awareness improvement activities have involved experiences such as using wheelchairs, wearing blindfolds to block vision, and walking with canes. They have also directly visited elementary schools to support disability education.
However, as face-to-face events became difficult due to COVID-19, the Department of Social Welfare has maintained the disability awareness improvement activities online since last year. The entire department’s students participate by producing educational videos to help understand people with disabilities.
For example, students create disability awareness improvement UCC videos and related posters, upload them on social networking services (SNS) to use as promotional materials, and also write essays on disability awareness improvement. The produced videos can be viewed from the 20th on the YouTube channel ‘Mokwon University Department of Social Welfare.’
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Lee Sang-woo, head of the Department of Social Welfare at Mokwon University, said, “Disability awareness improvement activities serve as a campaign to improve public perception of people with disabilities and to promote their human rights and welfare. For sociology students, such activities provide an opportunity to experience in advance the awareness and values essential for pursuing a career as professional social workers.”
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