Impact of training on pre-service teachers' attitudes and concerns about inclusive education and sentiments about persons with disabilities

Impact of training on pre-service teachers' attitudes and concerns about inclusive education and sentiments about persons with disabilities

• Sharma, Umesh Faculty of Education, Monash University
• Forlin, Chris Dept. of Educational Psychology, Counselling and Learning Needs, Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Loreman, Tim Faculty of Education, Concordia University College of Alberta, Canada

Disability & Society, 23(7), 773-785, 2008

Routledge

2008

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MG Identities, Attitudes & Opinion of Educational Workers
• E Special Education
  • EG Inclusive Education
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Inclusive Schools Foreign Countries Mainstreaming Teacher Surveys Attitudes Toward Disabilities Student Teacher Attitudes Instructional Effectiveness Attitude Change Preservice Teacher Education Knowledge Base For Teaching Course Descriptions Comparative Education Australia Canada Hong Kong Singapore

• Australia
• Canada
• Hong Kong
• Singapore

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Inclusion of students with disabilities into regular schools is now one of the most significant issues facing the education community both nationally and internationally. In order to address this issue there is widespread acceptance that teacher training institutions must ensure that new teachers are trained to teach effectively in classrooms where there are students with a variety of learning needs. Utilizing a data set of 603 pre-service teachers from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore this study reports the effects of training in inclusive education on pre-service teacher attitudes towards inclusion, their sentiments about people with a disability and their concerns about inclusion. The results are discussed in relation to a range of factors that could have produced different gains in their attitudes, sentiments and concerns among cohorts from different countries.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 09687599

• 10.1080/09687590802469271

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2010-09-08