Public Attitude towards Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in Mainstream Classes in Indonesia
- Keywords
- children with special needs, mainstream classes
- Abstract
The inclusion children with special needs (CSN) in mainstream classes is intensively promoted by the Indonesian government, but it seems that the public enthusiasm is low in implementing it. Therefore it is important to know the public attitude towards inclusion of CSN in mainstream class. This study was aimed to know the public attitude towards the inclusion of CSN in mainstream classes. Instrument in this study was Attitude towards Inclusion of CSN in Mainstream Classes Questionnaire, which was developed based on previous studies and opened questionnaire which was distributed to 19 preliminary participants. The questionnaire was built with three dimensions perceived benefits, perceived inefficiency, and perceived teacher’s difficulties which distributed by online survey. There were 240 participants involved in this research. The result found that there is no differences in participant based on having CSN as contact, but there are some differences in participants with different occupation
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rini Sipahutar PY - 2019/12 DA - 2019/12 TI - Public Attitude towards Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in Mainstream Classes in Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Special Education (ICSE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 286 EP - 293 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125928832 ID - Sipahutar2019/12 ER -