The practice of special education teachers in remote teaching during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Isabel de Castro Chaves, Ana Isabel Carvalho, Rosa Martins, Estrela Paulo, João Pascoinho, Ana Isabel Rodrigues, Ana Camões and Cindy Vaz

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1/2, 148-158

Abstract: The study was carried out with special education teachers, in a total of 43 participants, from a school in the north of Portugal. The study is of a quantitative nature and the general objective was to identify the attitudes and practices of special education teachers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. Statistical analysis was performed using the IBM/SPSS program, version 26.0 with exploratory factor analysis. Ethical issues were taken into account, safeguarding the anonymity of participants throughout the process. The main results were the frequency of use of digital technologies did not change significantly between during and after the remote teaching period and the type of digital technologies tools and their use by Special Education teachers during the pandemic determined their practices after the pandemic. This study makes evident the importance of training special education teachers in the use of digital technologies tools.

Keywords: digital technologies; remote learning; teachers; students; specific needs. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=143612 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijeded:v:16:y:2025:i:1/2:p:148-158

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Education Economics and Development from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().