Toward Inclusive Higher Education in a Global Context

Ana María Ortiz Colón, Miriam Agreda Montoro and María Jesús Colmenero Ruiz
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Ana María Ortiz Colón: Campus Las Lagunillas, Universidad de Jaen, 23071 Jaen, Spain
Miriam Agreda Montoro: Campus Las Lagunillas, Universidad de Jaen, 23071 Jaen, Spain
María Jesús Colmenero Ruiz: Campus Las Lagunillas, Universidad de Jaen, 23071 Jaen, Spain

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-13

Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyse the perception of teaching staff at the University of Jaen regarding the integration of students with a disability, and to describe the interventions they use to respond to the specific needs of these students, to examine the differences that exist in teachers’ interventions for students with a disability based on their faculty. To this end, a descriptive methodology was used ( n =300 teachers), and the data were gathered using a Tutoring and Attention to Special Needs in the Classroom Questionnaire (TASN-Q). The results were organised in terms of the tool’s different dimensions and, in general, revealed that the teaching staff do not consider themselves sufficiently prepared to provide an educational response to students with a disability. The best-prepared teaching staff belonged to the Faculties of Social and Legal Sciences and Health Sciences. This study confirms the need for training in special needs processes to enable university teaching staff to participate in an inclusive model.

Keywords: inclusion; higher education; teacher training (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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