Actitudes hacia la inclusión educativa de alumnos con discapacidad: variables relativas al profesorado y a la organización escolar en Educación Primaria

Abstract

The lack of collaboration between education professionals influences the development of negative attitudes, which become the barriers that mostly condition the process of educational inclusion. The objectives of this article are to analyze to the frequency and type of disability diagnosed in students included in twelve primary education centers, both public and private, and the relationship between inclusive attitudes and sociodemographic variables of 102 teachers (M=43.49; SD=10.6). An adaptation of the “Opinions Relative to Integration of Students with Disabilities” scale (Antonak and Larrive, 1995) was used, based on some Spanish translations (Garcia and Alonso, 1985; Mula et al., 2002; Sales, Moliner, and Sanchiz, 2001; Tarraga, Grau, and Peirat, 2013). The results highlight negative attitudes in teachers when the responsibility for the development, implementation and monitoring of curricular adaptations is not shared between different professionals. The importance of taking care of the active training of educational professionals, regardless of their specialties, in collaboratively providing appropriate educational measures for all students is raised.