The role of primary school teachers’ attitudes and self‐efficacy beliefs for everyday practices in inclusive classrooms – a study on the verification of the ‘Theory of Planned Behaviour’
By F. Hellmich, M. Löper, Gamze Görel. Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2019
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Within the framework of implementing inclusive education in primary schools, various questions arise concerning the role of teachers ’ personal resources in their everyday practices in heterogeneous classrooms. Teachers ’ professional person-alities as well as their intentions concerning inclusive teaching are considered to be important prerequisites for successful learning environments. Therefore, we examined the relevance of primary school teachers ’ personal resources, such as their attitudes towards inclusion and their perceived collective self - efficacy beliefs concerning inclusive teaching, in terms of their everyday practices in heterogeneous classrooms on the basis of the ‘ Theory of Planned Behaviour ’ . We investigated N = 290 primary school teachers ’ everyday practices according to their attitudes towards inclusion, their collective self-efficacy beliefs concerning inclusive education, their perceptions of school management ’ s expectations and their intentions regarding inclusive education. The results of our study indicate that primary school teachers ’ everyday practices in heterogeneous classrooms are significantly predicted by their intentions regarding the implementation of inclusive education and by their attitudes towards inclusive education but not by their collective self-efficacy beliefs or by their perceptions of school management ’ s expectations. Specifically, the effect of teachers ’ attitudes on their everyday practices in heterogeneous classrooms is significantly mediated by their intentions regarding the implementation of inclusive education.
Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy
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- Teacher efficacy predicts teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion – a longitudinal cross-lagged analysis (2020, background): “Only a few existing studies demonstrate results on the relationship between positive teacher attitudes (Schwab, Sharma, and Hoffmann 2019; Hellmich, Löper, and Görel 2019; Sharma and Sokal 2016) or self-efficacy (Wilson et al. 2016) on inclusive teaching practices.”
- Applying the theory of planned behaviour in assessments of teachers’ intentions towards practicing inclusive education: a scoping review (2020, background): “While three studies did not have direct influence of attitude on inclusive teaching behaviour (MacFarlane and Woolfson 2013; Wilson et al. 2016; Yan and Sin 2014), in three studies, one each conducted in China (Wang, Wang, and Wen 2015), Germany (Hellmich, Löper, and Görel 2019) and Scotland (Wilson”