Actitudes de los pares hacia estudiantes de educación inclusiva

Abstract

Inclusive education plays an important role in the educational process, so it is now in full diffusion and consolidation. Through the years it has become aware of the need to promote inclusive students´ acceptance in the education system. Therefore, it appeared the curiosity to know about the parents´ attitudes toward inclusive students. For this, it was specifically investigated on the attitudes toward disability; finding then positive, negative, and indefinite attitudes; grouping most of them into positive affirmations. The research conducted is quantitative, in which it was used the Inventory of Attitudes toward people with Disabilities (IAPD). It was applied to students in the sixth and seventh year of basic education of two public schools of Cuenca city. Among its main results, we can conclude that there is a high acceptance of disability by a school, finding also that from the participating boys and girls, who have a more positive attitude to disability, are the boys.