What Junior High School Students in Greece Believe for Their Classmates with Disabilities in the Course of Physical Education
One of the most important factors contributing to the success of inclusive education for children with and without disabilities is the positive attitude on the part of students towards children with disabilities and inclusive education. The recent development of inclusion and inclusion programs in secondary education in many countries makes it necessary to investigate the attitudes of pupils in secondary education and in Greece given the prospects of implementing the new legislation on Special Education and Training (Law 3699 / 2008). The present research effort focused on the exploration of the attitudes of students without disabilities who attended the Gymnasium, towards the integration of disabled students. More specifically, its objective was to investigate the relationship between the variable attitudes of non-disabled students towards the integration of pupils with disabilities, the gender of pupils, the socio-economic level of the family, the existence or not of a disabled child in their class. The CAIPE-R questionnaire (Block, 1995) was used to assess student attitudes. For the statistical analysis of the data, SPSS statistical version, version 0.20 was applied. Statistically significant variation arose between variable student disabilities without disability and gender, disability-free student attitudes and the presence or absence of a disabled child in the department where they were attending. The findings will contribute to building non-exclusion education.
Attitudes, Inclusion, Disability, Physical Education
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