Abstract
This study focused on associations between teachers’ flexibility and their use of evidence-based strategies in inclusive education in a sample of N = 119 teachers. Flexibility showed direct effects on teachers’ attitudes towards the achievement of mainstream students and students with learning difficulties, attitudes towards social benefits of inclusion for students with emotional and behavioral disturbances, and on teachers’ self-efficacy regarding the support of students’ social skills. Furthermore, indirect effects of flexibility on intentions and behavior regarding the support of social skills were found. The findings emphasize the importance of teachers’ flexibility in the realization of inclusive education.
Highlights
Because the focus of the study is on strategies that are appropriate for supporting both students with and without special needs, teachers from all types of schools were included in the study
The attitudes concerning the social benefits of inclusive education of students with emotional and behavioral disturbances (EBD) for mainstream students
The skewness of the scale on attitudes towards social benefits of inclusion of students with EBD for students without special educational needs (SEN) showed a slightly higher value (−0.48), which might be due to the sample size [42]
Summary
Citation: Lübke, L.; Pinquart, M.; Schwinger, M. The Role of Flexibility in the Realization of InclusiveEducation. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4452. https://doi.org/10.3390/ su13084452Academic Editor: Vasiliki BriniaReceived: 1 March 2021Accepted: 14 April 2021Published: 16 April 2021Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
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