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A Study on General Education Teachers’ Attitudes and Relationship between People with Disabilities and Inclusive Education

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2014, 15(2), pp.55-84
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Yong-Wook Kim 1 WOO JEONG HAN 2

1대구대학교 한국특수교육문제연구소
2대구사이버대학교

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ABSTRACT

To be successful inclusive education, participant personnel including generaleducation teachers are very important with administrative and financial support. The general education teachers’ attitudes toward people with disabilitiesand inclusive education influences on inclusive education. The purpose ofthis study was to grasp characteristics and relationship of general educationteachers’ attitudes between people with disabilities and inclusive education. For this study, 386 general education teachers were employed and researchedby questionnaire. The results of this study were as follows. First, general education teachers’ attitude toward people with disabilitieswas 3.59 out of 5 point, depending on gender, age, working school, educationalcareer and experience of inclusive education showed no statistically significantdifferences. Second, general education teachers’ attitude toward inclusive education was3.64 out of 5 point, depending on gender, age and educational career showedno statistically significant differences but in working school and experienceof inclusive education were significantly different. Third, the corelation of attitudes between people with disabilities andinclusive education was positive(r =.52). The factors of attitudes towardpeople with disabilities which influenced attitude toward inclusive educationwere ‘generalized rejection’, ‘imputed functional limitation’, ‘authoritarianvirtuousness’ and ‘contact tension’. Based on these results, some suggestionswere proposed for general education teachers’ attitudes toward people withdisabilities and inclusive education.

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