文档介绍：PRE-SERVICE EDUCATORS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
Andile Mdikana,
Sibusiso Ntshangase
and
Tokozile Mayekiso
University of the Witwatersrand
The inclusion of learners with special educational needs in general education is ing more prevalent. As a result various special education researchers have begun to examine the ess of inclusion, as well as the attitudes and beliefs of general educators towards the inclusion of learners with disabilities in the general education classroom. In the present study, preservice educators’ attitudes towards inclusive education were investigated. The participants are full time students of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. These students are registered for the Post Graduate Certificate in Education, ) and (Ed) and they are all in their final year of study. The students are mainly English-speaking. The prises of 22 students seven males and fifteen females. Convenient sampling design was employed. A questionnaire developed by Choles (1997) was adapted and was used as a measuring instrument to record the responses of the research respondents. The adapted prised of the following sections: Biographical details, Attitudes towards inclusive education, Requirements petency, Requirements for essful inclusion and Attitudes towards learners with Special Needs. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Th