Gazze'de Kapsayıcı Eğitim Uygulamalarının Öğretmen Görüşlerine Göre Değerlendirilmesi

This research concerns itself to examine teachers’ perception of inclusive education in three constructs of inclusive education in the Gaza City, namely comfort level when engaging with people with disabilities, acceptance of learners with different needs, and concerns about inclusive education. A random sample of in-service educators was selected. The analytic descriptive method was used and the SACIE Scale was used after standardizing the scale on the Gaza City environment. The result showed that the scale is reliable and valid, the outcomes also revealed that teachers have high level of concerns, low levels of comfort and acceptance toward inclusive education, those levels indicate to some extent negative perception about inclusive education. In addition, the outcome revealed statistically significant differences in the levels of comfort, acceptance, concerns and the total score of the scale among teachers due to specific variables.

Teachers’ Perception of Inclusive Education in Gaza City

This research concerns itself to examine teachers’ perception of inclusive education in three constructs of inclusive education in the Gaza City, namely comfort level when engaging with people with disabilities, acceptance of learners with different needs, and concerns about inclusive education. A random sample of in-service educators was selected. The analytic descriptive method was used and the SACIE Scale was used after standardizing the scale on the Gaza City environment. The result showed that the scale is reliable and valid, the outcomes also revealed that teachers have high level of concerns, low levels of comfort and acceptance toward inclusive education, those levels indicate to some extent negative perception about inclusive education. In addition, the outcome revealed statistically significant differences in the levels of comfort, acceptance, concerns and the total score of the scale among teachers due to specific variables.

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