文档介绍：ATTITUDES TO AND CONCERNS ABOUT INCLUSIVE EDUCATION:
BRUNEIAN INSERVICE AND PRESERVICE TEACHERS
Lori Bradshaw
Arizona State University
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Lawrence Mundia
University of Brunei Darussalam
Brunei is including more learners with special needs in general schools. To gain insight into problems that might arise research needs to be undertaken on a number of related issues. This study explored the attitudes to and concerns about inclusive education of 166 randomly selected pre-service and in-service teachers at the University of Brunei Darussalam on the BA primary education, BEd and PGCE programs. A three-part pre-tested instrument was used to collect demographic, attitudinal and concerns data. The alpha reliabilities of the Likert-type scales for attitudes and concerns were and respectively. At the whole group level no gender differences were found. Significant difference on attitudes to inclusive education were however found on all three parisons of the program students .The BEd special education students were more favourable to inclusive education than the other two groups. Surprisingly the groups did not differ significantly on their concerns about inclusive students. Findings have implication for teacher education.
Inclusion implies modating the learning environment and curriculum to meet the needs of all students and ensuring that all learners belong to munit