The Eight Dark Side Patterns of Building Bonds Between Undergraduate Students of Special Education and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities:Qualitative Research Repor

The main purpose of the entire qualitative research report illustrated in the article was to analyze and describe generated after fieldwork the eight dark sides patterns related to the process of forming the relationships and bonds between the special education 6 undergraduate students of Faculty of Education Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland and adults both sexes with intellectual disabilities, participants of Polish rehabilitation facilities. Research project and report are results of joint academic seminar work of both authors involved. The core of qualitative research project was focused on the context of the bonds related to the difficulties and burdens in establishing relationships between undergraduate special education students and adults with disabilities that were encoded as the dark side category. The purposive sample of participants in the projects consisted of 6 of special education students (5 females and 1 male), attending a Nicolaus Copernicus University and Faculty of Education Sciences courses in 2017 year. The research report illustrate also in its theoretical part, basic description of the difficulties and problems arising from the desire to create bonds and interpersonal relationships, that has changed over the centuries and were noticed by academics. The main research question formulated in the qualitative project was: what are the dark sides of the process of building bonds between undergraduate students and adults with intellectual disabilities?