This study investigates the perspectives of prospective child care teachers about early childhood education and early childhood special education. The results of the study are summarized in four categories: first, prospective teachers professed to val...
This study investigates the perspectives of prospective child care teachers about early childhood education and early childhood special education. The results of the study are summarized in four categories: first, prospective teachers professed to value the honesty and purity which characterize a typically developing young child, and they were sympathetic to children with disabilities with respect to the miserable situations in which most live; second, participants tended to agreed that education programs must help children, regardless of their ability or disability, to develop a healthy personality and competence to live in harmony with others; third, participants displayed a considerable amount of information about the procedures and strategies of teaching typical developing children but the majority of them presented few ideas of how to educate young children with disabilities; and fourth, the participants agreed that both early childhood and early childhood special education fields need more support at the national level for assuring both adequate opportunities and quality of adequate education for all children.