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Narrative Inquiry about Implementing Inclusive Educationof Elementary School Teachers

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2010, 11(4), pp.181-205
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

지종민 1

1신현초등학교

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ABSTRACT

This study is the case study on teachers’ experience on implementing inclusive education in elementary school by narrative inquiry. The purpose of this study research on the reality and recognition of general teachers’ implementing inclusive education in general classroom. In this study, narrative inquiry is a way of understanding the teachers’ experience of implementing inclusive education by telling and retelling the experience of the lives as a teacher. Telling a story about inclusive education, they wrote an autobiography on experience of implementing inclusive education. And then the participants had retold about inclusive education. The results of this study are summarized as follows:First, elementary school teachers lack expertise about inclusive education because they lack knowledge of special education, feel difficulty with accepting students with disabilities in mind and try to avoid teachers’ training about inclusive education. Second, elementary school teachers feel burden responsibility for inclusive education because they have to mediate problem behaviors of students with disabilities, practice instructional adaptations and accommodations, and perform guardian role in classroom.

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