Higher Education Teachers’ Training in Attention to SEN Students: Testing a Mediation Model

Nuria González-Castellano, Eulogio Cordón-Pozo, Silvia Pueyo-Villa and María Jesús Colmenero-Ruiz
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Nuria González-Castellano: Department of Pedagogy, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain
Eulogio Cordón-Pozo: Department of Business Organization II, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Silvia Pueyo-Villa: Department of Language and Education, European University of the Atlantic, 39011 Santander, Spain
María Jesús Colmenero-Ruiz: Department of Pedagogy, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: There is growing interest in analyzing the evolution of inclusive education in universities, highlighting the training of teachers as the main barrier to this evolution. The purpose of this study was to analyze, through a mediation model, to what extent the accessibility and inclusion of university campuses affect, both directly and indirectly, the continuous training of teachers in attention to diversity and training demands by teachers in this same area. Participants were 580 teachers from the Faculty of Education of eight Andalusian universities (Spain). The results revealed that the continuous training of teachers in attention to diversity mediates the negative effect that accessibility and inclusion of university campuses have on the training demanded by teachers; this means that the more accessible and inclusive the universities are, the more continuous training teachers have and therefore the more interest they have in continuing training. There is no empirical evidence in the literature that this mediation model is used in the field of educational inclusion as a methodological technique, so it is a very innovative contribution.

Keywords: university; inclusive education; teachers; training; mediation model; special educational needs (SEN) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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