The purpose of this study was to analyze the ordinary school teachers' awareness toward inclusion education. The independent variables were sex, teaching careers, and the degree of concerns. Two hundred teachers were participated to analyze the aware...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the ordinary school teachers' awareness toward inclusion education. The independent variables were sex, teaching careers, and the degree of concerns. Two hundred teachers were participated to analyze the awareness toward effective inclusion environments. The forty four-questions survey divided into four sections such as awareness, problems, competencies, and problem solving methods was developed. Each subparts contained eleven questions. Three-way Anova was utilized to analyze the awareness based on the responses of the survey.
The results of the study was followed. (a) In the analysis of total 44 questionnaire, there were not different attitudes toward effective inclusion environments according to sex and teaching careers, however, there was different awareness according to the degree of concerns. (b) In the analysis of four subparts, there were not different awareness toward effective inclusion environments according to sex and teaching careers, however, there was different attitudes according to the degree of concerns in the two subparts such as awareness and problem solving methods, not in problems and competencies. Therefore, the problems to develop the effective inclusion environments is a difficult phenomenon in the schools' teachers. The teachers may know that the problems for effective inclusion environments is not include in the boundary of the teachers's abilities and endeavors.