Educación inclusiva: perspectivas de los padres de familia de estudiantes con y sin discapacidad

Abstract

Parents are a key component for Inclusive Education. Therefore, it is mentioned which positive attitudes perform an important role in a successful implementation of Inclusion within an educational stage. Our goal was to analyse the attitude of parents toward Inclusive Education, as well as the variables related to their behaviour. Through a prolective cross-sectional study. Results show that most parents have a positive attitude referring to the Inclusion of students with any special needs. Many variables have been found connected to attitudes, such as the type of family and the school grades. Regarding to parents, the following factors have been found: being a father or mother, their age, their level of education, social and economical status, and if there is a child with special needs. It concludes with the idea that the inclusive culture is quite new in our context, therefore a greater empowerment towards this is needed by all the educational actors.