Teachers Perceptions and Attitudes on Implementing Inclusive Education: A case of mainstream primary school in Tilburg, the Netherlands

Implementing change as complex as inclusion first of all requires having clear understanding about its concept and aims. Unfortunately understanding about inclusion, despite consensus reached at Salamanca, still varies widely. It is therefore relatively easy to imagine how perceptions and attitudes on inclusion would impact on its implementation and therefore are critical issues to raise in implementing inclusive education. If one does not know clearly what to achieve, it would also follow that one could have difficulty in what it takes to achieve it. This book closely looks at one mainstream school to assess the various views of teachers and how such views have impacted on implementation of inclusive education within the school. It demonstrates clearly what was available and what was lacking as a result of the then existing perceptions and attitudes in terms of policy, planning, management, professional development and other support system to realize inclusion.

Kedir Ali is an Education specialist with more than 27years of successful career in leadership and management of education programs. He has B.Ed degree from Addis Ababa University, Postgraduate Certificate in teacher education from Krupskaya University and Masters in special needs/inclusive education from Roehampton, Fontys and Charles universities