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Union Gives Strength: Mainstream and Special Education Teachers' Responsibilities in Inclusive Co-Taught Classrooms
Stefanidis, Abraham; Strogilos, Vasilis
Educational Studies, v41 n4 p393-413 2015
Co-teaching has gained considerable interest as a means of promoting the inclusion of students with disabilities in mainstream education. Nowadays, there is a consensus among researchers that co-teaching should provide effective education to all students in a mainstream class. This study aims to explore co-teachers' attitudes towards co-teaching responsibilities in Greek mainstream classrooms. In particular, it examines co-teachers' attitudes with regard to their non-class-time (planning and evaluation) and class-time (instruction and behaviour management) responsibilities for students with and without disabilities. Four hundred co-teachers participated in this survey study. Overall, our findings demonstrate that mainstream education teachers and special education teachers disagree about their respective class-time and non-class-time responsibilities, and that their role influences their attitudes towards these responsibilities. The study concludes that the different attitudes of co-teachers towards their responsibilities could hinder the development of a shared approach in teaching students with and without disabilities in inclusive classrooms.
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Disabilities, Inclusion, Teacher Collaboration, Team Teaching, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Teacher Responsibility, Experienced Teachers, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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