ERIC Number: EJ1395796
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0885-6257
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Do Teachers Favor the Inclusion of All Students? A Systematic Review of Primary Schoolteachers' Attitudes towards Inclusive Education
European Journal of Special Needs Education, v38 n6 p766-787 2023
It has been decades since inclusive education was introduced as the most favourable approach to educating students with special educational needs and disabilities. Still, according to research and practice, teachers' attitudes are seen as the most important key factor for its successful implementation. Therefore, there is an ongoing process of researchers investigating teachers' attitudes towards inclusive schooling. The aim of the current study was to do a follow-up of previous reviews on primary schoolteachers' attitudes (Avramidis and Norwich 2002; de Boer, Pijl, and Minnaert 2011). In total, 36 studies were analysed. The results indicate that primary school teachers tend to hold rather neutral or ambivalent attitudes towards inclusive education. Similar to previous review results, inclusion still seems to be a matter of students' type of disability. Therefore, regular primary school teachers do not favour the inclusion of all students when it comes to the concept of inclusion for all students. Directions for improving teachers' attitudes are widely missing in the studies of the last years.
Descriptors: Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Educational Attainment, Teacher Qualifications, Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Teaching Experience, Teacher Education, Teaching Conditions
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Africa; Asia; Middle East; Europe; North America
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