Modifying attitudes of prospective educators toward students with disabilities and their integration into regular classrooms.
A study was conducted to determine whether prospective educators' attitudes toward students with disabilities and toward their integration into regular classrooms would be influenced by viewing videotapes presenting positive portrayals of persons with disabilities in regular settings and by the disa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Psychology Vol. 131; pp. 245 - 260 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May 1997
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| Sumario: | A study was conducted to determine whether prospective educators' attitudes toward students with disabilities and toward their integration into regular classrooms would be influenced by viewing videotapes presenting positive portrayals of persons with disabilities in regular settings and by the disability characteristic of the professor teaching the educators. Subjects were 433 prospective educators enrolled in an introductory special education course. Results revealed that those who viewed the videotapes expressed more favorable attitudes toward students with disabilities only when the special education course was taught by a professor with a visible physical disability. Neither the videotapes nor the disability characteristics of the professor influenced attitudes toward the integration of disabled students into regular classrooms. These findings are considered in relation to Yukor's (1988) review of research on the effects of personal contact on attitudes toward persons with disabilities. |
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