Preschool education studentsʼ attitude towards inclusion in preschool educational context

Skubic, Darija (author), Vidrih, Alenka (author)

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the attitudes of preschool education students regarding inclusive teaching/inclusive practices. As a research instrument a questionnaire with 17 statements, referred to education, practices and policies of inclusion was developed. 118 students of the preschool education study programme at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana participated in the study. There were 3 different groups of students: 25 students of the 2nd year of preschool education, who haven’t attended to the course Inclusive Education yet, 33 students of the 3rd year of preschool education, who have already attended to the subject Inclusive Education and 60 graduates from various study programmes (Faculty of Art, Faculty of Social Studies, Faculty of Social Work, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Theology etc.) and only some of them have attended to the course on inclusive education and are now training to be a preschool teacher (one-year training). The results provide the specific information about preschool education students’ attitudes towards inclusion. All findings were discussed in terms of preschool teacher education programme and several recommendations were developed to demonstrate the student the potential of transforming children disability into ability.

• Language: Unknown
• Keywords: inkluzija
• Work type: Not categorized
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: 529-544
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-73085
• Publication date in RUL: 13.10.2015

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• Language: Unknown
• Keywords: preschool teacher