Exploring Preschool Education Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes towards Inclusive Education: A Study Conducted within Chinese University Contexts
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https://doi.org/10.37134/bitara.vol17.sp.14.2024Keywords:
Inclusive Education, Attitude, Preschool Education StudentsAbstract
The introduction of inclusive education has led to the development of special education from isolation to integration. Although the implementation of inclusive education has achieved initial results in China, there are still many problems, including attitudinal issues among the social groups. Therefore, this study aimed to the attitudes among a sample of students in an university in China towards inclusive education; to discover the current implementation of inclusive education, predict the difficulties that may be encountered in the promotion of inclusive education in the future, and then take measures in advance to remove obstacles to the implementation of inclusive education. The revised scale has good reliability and validity. The inclusive educational attitude scale can be divided into four dimensions: physical factors, academic factors, Behavioural factors and social factors, and each factor contains four items. In this study, 407 students majoring in preschool education from an university in China were selected as survey objects, and the data of inclusive education attitude of preschool education pre-service teachers were analyzed by SPSS software. The results are as follows: (1) the attitude of preschool education pre-service teachers towards inclusive education is at the average level, (2) from the perspective of 16 items, students who are shy and withdrawn should be in regular classes reported the highest level of acceptance, while students who are physically aggressive towards their peers should be in regular classes reported the lowest level of acceptance, and (3) factors influencing preschool education students' acceptance of inclusive education include gender, major and whether they understand inclusive education or integrate education.
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