Teacher Educators' Views on Inclusive Education and Teacher Preparation in Ghana

Autor/inn/en	Nketsia, William; Saloviita, Timo; Gyimah, Emmanuel Kofi
Titel	Teacher Educators' Views on Inclusive Education and Teacher Preparation in Ghana
Quelle	In: International Journal of Whole Schooling, 12 (2016) 2, S.1-18 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1710-2146
Schlagwörter	Teacher Education Programs; Teacher Role; Teacher Attitudes; Schools of Education; Inclusion; Program Implementation; Special Education; Special Education Teachers; Foreign Countries; Preservice Teachers; Questionnaires; Statistical Analysis; Likert Scales; Teacher Educators; Teacher Educator Education; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerrolle; Lehrerverhalten; Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät; Inklusion; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Special education; Teacher; Teachers; Sonderpädagoge; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Ausland; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse; Likert-Skala; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung
Abstract	The crucial role of initial teacher education programmes and teacher educators in preparing effective inclusive practitioners has been universally acknowledged. This study explored the attitudes of 125 teacher educators from four colleges of education towards inclusive education, their views and concerns about teacher preparation and the implementation of inclusive education in Ghana. The study found positive attitudes and considerable support for inclusive education. However, the majority of teacher educators were of the view that Ghana was inadequately prepared for the implementation of inclusive education. Their reasons and concerns were generally found to include: inadequate teacher preparation, unpreparedness of teacher educators, inadequate emphasis on inclusive instructional strategies and lack of teaching and learning materials. The implications of these findings for future reforms of inclusive teacher education were discussed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01