Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Special Education (ICSE 2019)

Teacher's Attitudes toward Inclusive Education and Their Emotional Support for Students with Special Education Needs: A Study in Inclusive Preschools

Authors
Anastasia Arta Uli, Farida Kurniawati
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Anastasia Arta Uli
Available Online December 2019.
Keywords
inclusive education, teacher’s attitudes, emotional support, preschool, special education needs
Abstract

Inclusive Education (IE) provides social and emotional development opportunities for Student with Special Education Needs (SEN). Teachers play a critical role in helping children. To improve social skills, teacher and SEN can build a good interactions. One of the three domains of teacher student interaction is, called emotional support. This support is an important fundamental thing done by the teacher so students have independence and initiative and would eventually help students develop social skills and competencies. Interactions between teachers and students relate to positive teacher attitudes toward IE. This study aims to measure teacher’s emotional support and teacher attitudes towards IE, in an inclusive preschool. This study used a quantitative research method with 201 teachers from inclusive Preschool in Jakarta and other area as participants. Respondents were collected by purposive sampling. The results indicated that there are significant effects between behavior (aspect of teacher’s attitudes) and teacher’s emotional support. Behavior also have significant effects to each aspects of teacher’s emotional support.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Special Education (ICSE 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2019
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ISSN
2352-5398
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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