Słowa kluczowe: identity, postmodernism, students, development, risk factors, globalization, information society, inclusive education, teachers, pupils with disabilities, teachers of inclusive education, special education, teaching practice, student, special needs teacher, teacher education for inclusion, education, creativeness, creative thinking, perception, perception of people with disabilities, changes in perception of people with disabilities, teacher readiness, augmentative and alternative communication, persons with communication disorders, value, disability, pedagogy students, special education students, personality traits, Big Five, cynical hostility, skills, reflection, implementation competences, interpretative competences, matter of special pedagogy, globalisation, human rights, special educator, perception of the profession, defining the term „special educator”, determinants of definition, emancipation, sexuality, subjectivity, discourse, changes in disability discourse, the third space of disability discourse, hybridity of educational space, paternalism, models of the physican-patient, rehabilitation, dialectics of solicitude, pedagogical support, weak thought, identity of special education, discontinuity of sciences, epistemological obstacles, knowledge building, quality of publications