Teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education of children with special educational needs and disabilities in central Asia

Prisiazhniuk D. Makoelle T.M. Zangieva I.
May 2024 Elsevier Ltd

Children and Youth Services Review
2024 #160

Teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education, particularly towards students with special educational needs and disability (SEND), have become a focus of research in the past years. In many countries, the process of the implementation of inclusive education has either not been smooth or, in some cases, stalled by negative attitudes of teachers. Teachers are regarded as key drivers of the implementation of inclusive education as they are at schools and classrooms, which are strategic delivery points. Central Asian countries have embarked on a process of implementing inclusive education in their respective education systems. Therefore, in this quantitative study, using regression analysis, and one-way ANOVA, the attitudes of eight hundred and sixty-nine (869) teachers from Central Asian countries i,e Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan were surveyed. The analysis shows a noticeable shift from the segregation strategy embedded in defectology to inclusion and equity for students with SEND. However, the teachers’ attitudes still vary, the teachers could be classified into six groups according to their settings towards inclusive education.

Central Asia , Children with Disabilities , Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities , Inclusion , Inclusive Education , Teachers’ Attitudes

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International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, HSE University, Myasnitskaya Street, 20, Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation
Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
School of Sociology, International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, HSE University, Russian Federation

International Laboratory for Social Integration Research
Graduate School of Education
School of Sociology

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