Abstract

<p>Physical education is an important thing to teach in an effort to maintain health. In the term of special education, adaptive physical education is very necessary in teaching physical education for students with special needs. The main purpose of this study is to determine the perceptions of teachers, especially special teachers, on adaptive physical education in inclusive schools. This study is a descriptive quantitative research involving 15 teachers in Surakarta. Data was collected using questionnaires using 4 Likert scale.The results showed that teachers’ perception on the purpose of adaptive physical education was high for 70%. Meanwhile, teachers’ perception on the implementation of physical adaptive education was high for 62%. However, teachers’ perception on the adaptive physical education materials was moderate for 56%. Also for the assessment in adaptive physical education, teachers’ perception was moderate for 58%. In terms of the physical adaptive education tools, teachers’ perception was high for 81%. The result of this research can be used to develop the nature of adaptive physical education itself, especially in inclusive school. By knowing the teachers’ perceptions on adaptive physical education, some parties can determine which parts are lack and need to be developed, especially in adaptive physical education</p><p> </p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: <em>Perception of teachers, adaptive physical education</em></p>

Highlights

  • Children with special needs are children having different ability in the term of their mental, sensory, physical and neuromascular ability, social and emotional behavior, and communication skill (Mangunsong, 2009: 4)

  • There is an opinion from Gorman & Clayton that this research method is to report the meaning of event from what is observed by researchers (Santana, 2007: 28)

  • Those 20 items were divided into 5 parts, namely (1) purpose of adaptive physical education, (2) the implementation of adaptive physical education, (3) adaptive physical education materials, (4) assessment in adaptive physical education, and (5) physical adaptive education tools

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Introduction

Children with special needs are children having different ability in the term of their mental, sensory, physical and neuromascular ability, social and emotional behavior, and communication skill (Mangunsong, 2009: 4). Children with special needs are defined as children having different ability compared to other regular children (Efendi, 2006: 2). Since they have different characteristics, intervention and modification are needed to adjust the characteristics of each disability. Students with disabilities have the same right to learn in school as the general school population. An increasing numbers of students with special needs are enrolling into educational institution. Tsai et al (2013) state that all people have equal opportunity in education, regardless of their social class, ethnicity, background, or physical disabilities. Students with disabilities have rights to expect the same education as other students without considering their disability

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