scholarly journals Social, Systemic, Individual-Medical or Cultural? Questionnaire on the Concepts of Disability Among Teacher Education Students

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Gebhardt ◽  
Michael Schurig ◽  
Sebastian Suggate ◽  
David Scheer ◽  
Dino Capovilla
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Teacher Behavior ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Models Of Disability ◽  
Experience Education ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Attitudes Towards Inclusion

The individual-medical concept of disability, whereby disability is believed to be caused by some intractable impairment, is perhaps the most widely held view in society. However, other concepts exist with which teachers in inclusive schools should be familiar (e.g., social, systemic), to better inform teacher behavior, attitudes and understanding. We therefore developed an instrument to capture education students’ concepts of disability. We constructed the questionnaire according to four theoretical models of disability (individual-medical, social, systemic, and cultural concepts), which are commonly used in inclusive teacher education, and validated this on a sample of 775 education students. Additionally, we administered the Attitudes towards Inclusion Scale (AIS) and measured key demographic variables. The instruments, data and analysis code used are available online at https://osf.io/dm4cs/. After dropping redundant items, a shortened form of the questionnaire contained 16 items, with satisfactory psychometric values for scales pertaining to four concepts of disability (CFI = 0.963, TLI = 0.955, RMSEA = 0.037, SRMR = 0.039). These four concepts of disability showed small correlations with the AIS, indicating that our questionnaire measured an independent construct. The more experience education students had with disability and the more courses they had attended on inclusive education, the more likely they were to agree with the social concept of disability. The questionnaire shows promise in measuring concepts of disability and might be used to stimulate students’ critical reflection during teacher education.

scholarly journals O problema da pobreza de experiência na formação do professor: desafios da educação inclusiva

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Michelli Agra
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
General Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Formación Docente

O presente artigo tem por objetivo discutir os desafios da educação inclusiva, com base no conceito de experiência aplicado à problemática da formação do professor. Utiliza-se como referencial teórico-metodológico, a Teoria Crítica da Sociedade, com base nos autores Theodor Adorno e Walter Benjamin. As considerações giram em torno da argumentação das possíveis causas e efeitos do empobrecimento da experiência na sociedade burguesa capitalista, com a seguinte questão: ‘Para que viver experiências na formação de professor?’ No sentido que se procura expor, a experiência deixa marcas que passam a pertencer à subjetividade do indivíduo, além de potencializar a racionalidade e a autonomia. A educação inclusiva, por sua vez, revela a educação geral e pode contribuir para uma educação que propicie a resistência e a emancipação humana.Palavras-chave: Experiência; Formação do Professor; Educação Inclusiva. The problem of poverty of experience in teacher training: challenges of inclusive educationABSTRACTThis article aims to discuss the challenges of inclusive education, based on the concept of experience applied to the problem of teacher education. The Critical Theory of Society, based on the authors Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin was used as theoretical-methodological reference. Considerations revolve around arguing the possible causes and effects of the impoverishment of experience in capitalist bourgeois society, with the following question: 'Why live experiences in teacher training?' In the sense we seek to expose, experience leaves marks that pass to belong to the subjectivity of the individual, in addition to enhancing rationality and autonomy. Inclusive education, in turn, reveals general education and can contribute to an education that fosters resistance and human emancipation.Keywords: Experience; Teacher Training; Inclusive education. El problema de la pobreza de experiencia en la formación del profesor: desafíos de la educación inclusiva RESUMENEl presente artículo tiene como objetivo discutir los desafíos de la educación inclusiva, basándose en el concepto de experiencia aplicado a la problemática de la formación docente. Se utiliza como referencial teórico-metodológico, la Teoría Crítica de la Sociedad, basándose en autores como Theodor Adorno y Walter Benjamin. Las consideraciones giran alrededor de la argumentación de las posibles causas y efectos del empobrecimiento de la experiencia en la sociedad burguesa capitalista, con la siguiente cuestión: ¿Para qué vivir experiencias en la experiencia en la formación docente? En el sentido en que se busca exponer, la experiencia deja señas que pertenecen a la subjetividad del individuo, además de potenciar la racionalidad y la autonomía. La educación inclusiva, a su vez, revela la educación general y puede contribuir para una educación que favorezca la resistencia y la emancipación humana.Palabras clave: Experiencia; Formación docente; Educación Inclusiva.

scholarly journals Collegial teaming for inclusive education using photovoice as tool

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deidre C. Geduld
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Mentor Teachers ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
School Based ◽  
Mainstream Classrooms ◽  
Teacher Education Students

As a Foundation Phase (FP) and inclusive education (IE) lecturer I am responsible for preparing teacher education students for the diversity in classrooms in low socio-economic environments, where teachers have very little professional help in the form of health professionals and remedial and support teachers. This qualitative study explored how collegial teaming amongst pre- and inservice FP teachers can promote the practice of IE. Photovoice technology was used to explore teachers’ challenges in mainstream classrooms and to investigate how teaming can promote IE practices. Participants included five practising inservice mentor teachers and five fourth-year preservice teachers from the local university. The findings have implications for an IE conception of quality, academic rigour and depth in initial teacher education focusing on school-based learning and teaching experiences. This study, with its ‘research as intervention’ approach, enabled collegial teams to make their voices heard and to reflect critically on what it is that they can do to contribute to promoting the practice of IE.

Edmodo-Based Blended Learning Media in Learning Mathematics

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yullys Helsa ◽  
Ary Kiswanto Kenedi
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Elementary Teacher ◽  
Elementary Teacher Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Teacher Education Students

This research is motivated by the crucial development of the information technology era in changing learning paradigm from conventional to technology-based learning. The purpose of this study is to develop Edmodo-based blended learning media in learning mathematics for Elementary Teacher Education students. This research is a research and development (R&D) that uses the ADDIE procedures. This study results a valid, effective and practical Edmodo-based blended learning media in learning mathematics for Elementary Teacher Education students. It is implied that Edmodo-based blended learning media can be applied by the lecturers to support learning for Elementary Teacher Education students.

Art Creation as an Instrument in Education of Individuals with Disabilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Pavel Sochor
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Outsider Art ◽  
Individuals With Disabilities ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
Models Of Disability ◽  
Art Brut ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
The Impact

Theoretical study deals with approaches towards art education of individuals with disabilities. Arts and Education are crucial cultural components and significantly affect the quality of life of people with disabilities in our society. Nowadays both components may serve to promote the ideas od lifelong inclusive education. Intervention in education is influenced by models of disability concepts reflecting different approaches. Art therapy and approach presenting the impact of disability on the basis of social reality is confronted with the presentation of disabled artist´s personality and his diversity. Unique environment of art education centres and art studios provides opportunity for cultivation of personality of a person with disability. The establishment of author with a disablity in artistic style art brut and outsider art in mainstream society can be considered as a form of socialization.

scholarly journals Framing heuristics in inclusive education: The case of Uganda’s preservice teacher education programme

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Proscovia S. Nantongo
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teacher ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
Primary Teacher Education ◽  
Group Interviews

Background: Recent education-related research has raised concerns about the persistent exclusion of vulnerable learners in Uganda. The Revised Primary Teacher Education Curriculum of 2013 marked an ambitious yet inconclusive attempt to advance the implementation of inclusive education but has encountered deeply entrenched sociocultural exclusionary practices among education experts.Objectives: This study aimed to explicate education practitioners’ interpretations of Uganda’s flagship inclusive education programme in preservice primary teacher education.Method: Drawing on the conceptual vocabulary of frame analysis and the qualitative analysis of individual and group interviews and classroom observations, the interpretations of inclusive education implementation in preservice primary teacher education in Uganda were examined. The participants included policy design experts, curriculum design experts and classroom practitioners.Results: Three main findings emerged. Firstly, interpretations of inclusive education displayed a narrow framing heuristic of inclusive education as a perfunctory, daily practice rather than a pathway for reflective, inclusive pedagogical engagement. Secondly, the heuristic encouraged the treatment of inclusive pedagogy as a ‘label’ under a specific rubric referring to sensory impairments or disabilities – a historical device for sociocultural exclusion. Thirdly, inclusive education was a praxis but was misframed from its original intentions, causing tension and resentment among practitioners. These findings contribute to the debates on the sustainability of inclusive education beyond preservice teacher education.Conclusion: Uganda’s flagship inclusive education programme in preservice primary teacher education was fraught with tensions, ambiguities and an overt, urgent need for change.

scholarly journals Validity of the “Big Data Tendency in Education” Scale as a Tool Helping to Reach Inclusive Social Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Matas-Terrón ◽  
Juan José Leiva-Olivencia ◽  
Pablo Daniel Franco-Caballero ◽  
Francisco José García-Aguilera
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Society ◽  
Education Students ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Nonprobability Sample ◽  
Big Data Technology

Big Data technology can be a great resource for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in a fair and inclusive manner; however, only recently have we begun to analyse its impact on education. This research goal was to analyse the psychometric characteristics of a scale to assess opinions that educators in training have about Big Data besides their related emotions. This is important, as it will be the educators of the future who will have to manage with Big Data at school. A nonprobability sample of 337 education students from Peru and Spain was counted. Internal consistency, as well as validity, were analysed through exploratory and confirmatory factorial analysis. The results show good psychometric values, highlighting as relevant a latent structure of six factors that includes emotional and cognitive dimensions. As a result, the profile defining the participants in relation to Big Data was identified. Finally, the implications of the Big Data for Inclusive Education in a sustainable society are discussed.

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