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A Korean Cultural Analysis on the Inclusion : With Focus on the Selecting Process and Selected Result of Inclusive Class

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2006, 7(1), pp.455~487
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Yongseok Chung 1

1진주교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study was aimed at analyzing the selecting process and selected result of inclusive class through Korean culture with conformity or harmony. In this study, Korean culture was defined as collective culture such as conformity or harmony shared by East Asian countries. Two instruments in this study were designed to measure Korean cultural factors, which were perceptual tasks and questionnaires. Perceptual tasks consisted of both preperance tests of specific subfigures, and selecting specific subfigures. Questionnaires tasks four items divided into two groups, korean cultural factor and epistemological factor. Conclusions from results in this study are as follows. First, it was suggested that Korean cultural foctor had important role in selecting inclusive settings. Results in selecting subfigures were significantly affected by Korean collective cultures such as harmony or conformity. Second, it was suggested that Korean cultural factor had significant role in resulting in inclusive class, such as harmony or conformity. Conclusion recommended that we had to have more inclusive settings for children with special needs in Korea.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.