The education of children with special needs requires a special approach, because children with special needs can, under the right conditions, achieve comparable results as their peers who do not have special needs. The Swedish educational system is often mentioned as an example to the Slovenian one. The main advantages of the Swedish educational system can in the first instance be seen in the treatment of children with special needs.
The aim of the research is to analyze attitudes towards the inclusion of children with special needs among educators in Slovenian and Swedish kindergartens.
The research used quantitative methodology. The descriptive research method was used to describe the actual state of the phenomena that was investigated. The causal non-experimental method of pedagogical research was used to find differences between phenomena.
We have come to the realization that:
- Educators have a positive attitude towards inclusion both in Slovenia and Sweden.
- None of the groups studied felt completely competent to work with children with special needs.
- In spite of the diversity of equipment in the playrooms, spaces for children with special needs do not allow optimal development.
- Teaching aids for children with special needsdepend to a large extent dependent on the ingenuity of their educators.
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