Development of Inclusive Culture among Teachers in Educational and Sanatorium Type of Institutions

Abstract

The relevance of the research on this problem is driven by the fact that currently, the Republic of Belarus is actively implementing the ideas of inclusive education. The inclusive approach gives every child, including those with special needs, the right to be included in the general education system at all levels: to research together with their agemates in kindergartens and schools, to attend clubs and studios, to rest in recreation camps. One of the key problems in the organization of inclusive health improvement is that teachers are not prepared to work with children with special needs. Therefore, the preliminary work on the development of an inclusive culture among teachers is the prerequisite for the successful implementation of inclusive practices in summer recreation camps. The aim of the paper is to determine the possibilities of using the diagnostic method “Inclusive culture of a teacher of an educational and sanatorium type of institutions” to research the features of the development of inclusive culture among teachers of educational and sanatorium type of institutions. The ascertaining experiment was the leading method in the research of this problem. The experimental base of the research was represented by the teachers of the National Children’s Educational and Health–Improving Center “ZUBRЕNOK” distributed into two groups: the first — the experimental group included 46 teachers who in 2018-2019 took part in a series of training seminars on the development of inclusive culture, conducted by the staff of the Institute of Inclusive Education of the Belarusian State Pedagogical University. The control group consisted of 24 teachers who did not take part in the training. The research was conducted in 2019-2020. The paper presents the analysis of the obtained results of the research on the peculiarities of the development of inclusive culture among teachers of educational and sanatorium type of institutions. The materials of the paper can be used when organizing monitoring research at different stages of implementation of inclusive practices in educational and sanatorium type of institutions when developing technology for the development of inclusive culture among teachers and other subjects of inclusive education.