Create a new account

It's simple, and free.

Teachers' Attitudes Toward Inclusion

of special needs students with new demands for inclusion. Equity issues demand access to and the redistribution of general education resources for all students. The implementation of inclusion has met with resistance from the education community (Artiles, 2003). Artiles (2003) pointed out that academic diversity must prevail. Teachers are required to modify curricula, delivery of instruction, and assessment strategies. General and special education teachers continue to struggle with how to accommodate students with disabilities (Hedeen & Ayres, 2002). Teachers require training and partnerships with a team that includes special education teachers and parents (Wall, 2002).

Connor and Ferri (2005) reported further that efforts to include special needs students in regular classrooms have resulted in racial segregation. These authors stated that there are five million colored children in the United States and another five million children who are labeled different due to disabilities such as blindness or deafness or because they are crippled with cerebral palsy or epilepsy, or because they are retarded. Despite reforms, there is a disproportionate number of students from minority groups who are referred for special education services and a larger number of these students are labeled disabled and placed in segregated programs. Another racial imbalance is found in the teachers; while 40% of the students are of a racial minority group, 90% of the teachers are white. Despite legal demands to provide all with an education, educators remain split over the inclusion controversy. In a study of 15 prominent special education scholars, it was noted that traditionalists favor the special education model based on the medical model and reconceptualists find special education to be flawed in light of a social model. The social model postulates that special education programs are limited socially and deny students with disabilities.

< Prev Page 2 of 19 Next >

More on Teachers' Attitudes Toward Inclusion...

Loading...
APA     MLA     Chicago
Teachers' Attitudes Toward Inclusion. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 05:54, March 29, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1696516.html