ИНТЕРЕСОВАЊА СТУДЕНАТА ПЕДАГОГИЈЕ ЗА ПИСАЊЕ МАСТЕР РАДОВА ИЗ ОБЛАСТИ ИНКЛУЗИВНОГ ОБРАЗОВАЊА

Abstract

Inclusive education is an important trend in education in different countries of the world, as well as in our country. At the same time, teachers, educational counselors and other employees in education have a key role in the realization of the concept of inclusive education. The paper is focused on the analysis of defended master’s theses with the aim of determining the interest of pedagogy students, as future educational counselors in various educational institutions, for studying topics from the field of inclusive education. A quantitative research was realized, which is based on the analysis of the content of master’s theses defended in the period from the beginning of the academic year 2016/17. years to date within the subject Contemporary Pedagogy and Inclusive Education at the Master Academic Studies of Pedagogy – Module Social Pedagogy. Areas of students’ interest in studying subtopics within the concept of inclusive education have been identified, the specifics of theoretical approaches to the problems in defended master’s theses in the field of inclusive education were analyzed; the specifics of students’ methodological approaches in the defended master’s theses were analyzed as well, and the key research findings and the main conclusions of the realized research were analyzed. Students are interested in studying topics in this field, which may indicate their interest in contributing to the realization of inclusion in education in future work in practice. Keywords: inclusive education, pedagogy students, master’s theses, quantitative/ qualitative research, content analysis.