Inclusion of integrated students : A study of teachers perceptions of inclusion

In accordance with a phenomenographic approach, I have assumed that people perceive a certain phenomenon in different ways as they have different relationships with the world. In this study, I, as a researcher, made the assumption that teachers have varied perceptions of inclusion of integrated students, which led to my decision to investigate this. The purpose of this study is to investigate what some teachers who teach students who read integrated have for perceptions of inclusion of these students, which has led to the two questions of the study: What percepetions of pedagogical inclusion of students integrated from special school in primary schools does some teachers in primary schools have and what percepetions of social inclusion of students integrated from special school in primary schools does some teachers in primary schools have? The method of this study is interview and data collection has been through qualitative interviews with seven teachers who teach integrated students. All interviews have been recorded and then transcribed. A phenomenographic analysis of the data collected resulted in five different perceptions of inclusion: Inclusion depends on special education skills, inclusion depends on the teacher's experience, inclusion depends on the teacher's knowledge of the special school education curriculum, inclusion depends on having a community with schoolmates and inclusion depends on school staff creating conditions for communities. The first three perceptions are linked to pedagogical inclusion, thus responding to the first issue of the study. The remaining two perceptions are linked to social inclusion, thus responding to the second issue of the study