University Cultural Inclusiveness: A Case at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Program

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe the cultural inclusiveness of the Faculty of Teacher Training and education, Universitas Sebelas maret Surakarta. The subjects were 32 lecturers, 22 administration staffs, and 63 students on the bases of voluntary participation. The instrument was the Cultural Standard of the Higher Education metric (the Metric consisted of three standards: cultural, practice, and supports). It consisted of 33 Likert Scale Items with 6 dimensions. The s half reliabilities of the scales were 0.538 for the scales for lecturers, 0.578 for scales for students, and 0.644 for the ones inclusiveness. The scores were 3.66 for lecturers, 3.44 for administration staffs, and 3.55 for students. When data were broken down by dimensions, the highest scorers were for higher expectation for administration staffs. The results indicated that lecturers, administration staffs and students had high cultural for students with disabilities (3.77), rights of individuals with disabilities for higher education (3.74), and support for friendly environment of individual with disabilities (3.67). The lowest dimension was in the choice of being inclusive (3.04). The result of the study showed that lecturers, administration staffs, and students of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education has high cultural inclusiveness.