The attitudes of general education pre-service teachers toward the inclusion program

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of general education pre-service teachers toward the inclusion program.

This study has a great interest to different stakeholders, coordinators, and third parties.

This study was conducted as a collective case study.

It also relied on constructivism, combined with interpretivism, focused on identifying the main attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs of the general education pre-services teachers.

The participants in the study were two students from a western state university; each from a different culture.

There were two face-to-face interviews conducted with each participant.

The interviews were audio-taped and then transcribed.

The result showed that both participants’ attitudes as general education pre-service teacher were positive toward the inclusion program and their perceptions and experiences with the inclusion program influenced their attitudes.