Abstract
The article presents the results of a qualitative study revealing the challenges faced by primary school teachers in ensuring inclusive education for children with autism spectrum disorders (hereinafter ASD) in mainstream classrooms. Teachers face the following challenges: problem behaviour of children with ASD, difficulty in engaging children with ASD in the classroom community and common activities, difficulties in collaborating with other teachers, education support professionals, and parents.
Highlights
In the World Education Forum of 2015 UNESCO declared that equal opportunities and inclusion were one of the key tasks for future education by 2030 (UNESCO, 2015)
The article presents the results of a qualitative study revealing the challenges faced by primary school teachers in ensuring inclusive education for children with autism spectrum disorders in mainstream classrooms
The following problematic issue was raised: what challenges were faced by primary school teachers in ensuring inclusive education for children with ASD in mainstream classrooms
Summary
In the World Education Forum of 2015 UNESCO declared that equal opportunities and inclusion were one of the key tasks for future education by 2030 (UNESCO, 2015). The main aim of inclusive education is to ensure a high quality education for all learners and a possibility to get educated based on every learner’s individual abilities and needs, by avoiding any type of discrimination (Wild at al., 2015). Inclusive education creates a need to shift to individualised education of every child, by developing and implementing new teaching and learning methods, changing educational environments and diversifying the forms of learning (Rouse, 2008; Smith, Polloway, Patton, & Dowdy, 2013; etc.). More attention must be granted to children with special educational needs, by providing them with appropriate conditions for safe and high quality education in mainstream schools. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) sets a priority for inclusive education for persons with special educational needs and ensuring necessary support in the general education system when studying together with peers
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