Teachers' attitudes toward integration: Validation of a Chinese Version of The Attitudes Toward Mainstreaming Scale (ATMS)

Psychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-11

  Yuen, Mantak ^a   Westwood, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China special education; Inclusion; Integration; Mainstreaming; Students with special needs; Teachers' attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036012560     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2002.1     Document Type: Article

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