اتجاهات معلمات ما قبل الخدمة نحو دمج الطلاب من ذوي الإعاقة في مدارس التعليم العام في دولة الكويت ومهاراتهم المعرفية والتدريسية

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The current study aims to investigate pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward including students with disabilities in public education schools at Kuwait and to explore the participants’ pedagogical knowledge, and teaching skills.

The qualitative approach was adopted.

Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data from 19 female pre-service teachers from one university.

After collecting and analyzing data, four major themes were generated which include other sub-themes.

The main results are: 1- pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward inclusion were positive when they were related to a specified type and severity of disability, 2- participants believed that the purpose of inclusion is to strengthen social relationship among students, 3- participants were not ready to teach students with disabilities and felt afraid and unqualified to meet their needs.

Many challenges and obstacles were identified by the participants as against the success of inclusion in Kuwait; such as inadequate teacher preparation programs.

Suggestions and future research were discussed and provided.