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January 28, 2019Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

Attitudes and self-efficacy of physical education teachers toward inclusion of children with disabilities: a narrative review of international literature

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YHYeshayahu HutzlerIsrael Sports Center for the DisabledSMStefan MeierUniversity of ViennaSRSabine ReukerGerman Sport University Cologne

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Implication

Narrative review reveals key determinants of physical education teachers' attitudes and self-efficacy toward disability inclusion, highlighting targets for evidence-based training interventions.

Key Points

  • To synthesize international research examining physical education teachers' attitudes and self-efficacy toward the inclusion of students with disabilities, and to propose a research framework for future investigations and interventions.
  • Searched SPORTDiscus, MEDLINE, and Google Scholar for peer-reviewed literature using terms related to physical education teachers, inclusion, disability, attitudes, and self-efficacy.
  • Framed literature using Social Learning Theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior to evaluate teacher perceptions and assessment instruments.
  • Identified 75 eligible articles, consisting of 54 on teachers' attitudes, 12 on self-efficacy (with 3 evaluating both), and 12 review or viewpoint publications.
  • Determined that attitudes and self-efficacy are primarily influenced by prior disability experience, specialized academic training, teacher gender, school environmental culture, and the nature or severity of the disability.
  • Formulated an interactive model linking teacher, school, and disability attributes to attitudes and self-efficacy, which directly moderate inclusive instructional behavior via a continuous feedback loop.

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Hutzler et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a122b09a2d24b27c166c767https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2019.1571183
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