Abstract

CROCHIK, José Leon et al. Teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2009, vol.29, n.1, pp. 40-59. ISSN 1414-9893.

In order to analyze the attitudes of teachers towards inclusive education by means of the critical theory of the society, 14 elementary school teachers with and without experience with this type of education were interviewed; the teachers worked in public and private schools. The majority of the peopleinterviewed declared they were favorable to the inclusive education considering appropriate conditions such as: human resources, reduction of students in class, restriction to the number of students with intellectual disability, the necessity of the teacher to be an specialist in inclusive education and the presence of health professionals (such as doctors, psychologists and fonoaudiologists) in the school as well as the support of other teachers in class. As for the benefits and damages of the inclusive education, the results showed that the majority of the teachers thinks that the students without disability consider they are superior to the classmates with disability and half of the interviewed think that the presence of the students with disability does not disturb the apprenticeship of the students without disability; eventually, the majority of the teachers considers that the inclusive education favor both socialization and learning of the students with disability.

Keywords : Integrated/ inclusive education; Critical theory of the society; Attitudes; Teachers.

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