Understanding teachers' attitudes and self-efficacy in inclusive education: Implications for pre-service and in-service teacher education

European Journal of Special Needs Education

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-68

  Savolainen, Hannu ^a   Engelbrecht, Petra ^b   Nel, Mirna ^c   Malinen, Olli Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

attitudes; inclusive education; self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISABILITY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INCLUSIVE EDUCATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOUTH AFRICA; TEACHER; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SENTIMENTS ATTITUDES AND CONCERNS ABOUT INCLUSIVE EDUCATION SCALE; SOUTH AFRICAN; SPECIAL EDUCATION; TEACHING;

EID: 84856994300     PISSN: 08856257     EISSN: 1469591X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08856257.2011.613603     Document Type: Article

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