Teachers' attitudes towards inclusion, perceived adequacy of support and classroom learning environment

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 113-126

  Monsen, Jeremy J ^a   Ewing, Donna L ^b   Kwoka, Maria ^c  

^a East London Consortium of Educational Psychologists   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c Kent Educational Psychology Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classroom learning environments; Inclusion; My Class Inventory (MCI); Teacher attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894499587     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-013-9144-8     Document Type: Article

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