Student Teachers' Attitudes and Concerns about Inclusive Education in Ghana and Botswana

Autor/inn/en	Kuyini, Ahmed Bawa; Mangope, Boitumelo
Titel	Student Teachers' Attitudes and Concerns about Inclusive Education in Ghana and Botswana
Quelle	In: International Journal of Whole Schooling, 7 (2011) 1, S.20-37 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1710-2146
Schlagwörter	Student Teachers; Regular and Special Education Relationship; Student Teacher Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Classrooms; Inclusion; Mainstreaming; Attitude Measures; Questionnaires; Cross Cultural Studies; Attitudes toward Disabilities; Cultural Differences; Student Characteristics; Botswana; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Ausland; Classroom; Klassenraum; Inklusion; Fragebogen; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Kultureller Unterschied
Abstract	This study examined student teachers' attitudes and concerns about inclusive education in Ghana and Botswana. A three-part survey questionnaire consisting of background variables, attitudes, and concerns was completed by 202 students from four teacher training institutions in both countries. One of the institutions was a university and the others were teacher training colleges. Employing descriptive statistics, t-tests and ANOVA the results showed that the student teachers' attitudes were barely positive; they had concerns about inclusive education relating to a number of issues including resources and their responses were influenced by some background variables. The findings support earlier studies of attitudes and concerns of practicing teachers and provides basis for recommending that more needs to be done in teacher training courses in Ghana and Botswana to enhance student teacher attitudes towards students with disabilities in regular classrooms as well as reduce the existing concerns. Some recommendations are made in relation to improving student teachers' disposition towards inclusive education. (Contains 10 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10