Inclusion and the Challenge of Assimilation for Teachers of Students with Severe Disabilities
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps
- Vol. 23 (3) , 238-251
- https://doi.org/10.2511/rpsd.23.3.238
Abstract
The perceptions of fourteen teachers from fourteen different public schools about their changing roles and responsibilities as they moved into inclusive settings with students with severe disabilities were explored in this qualitative study. It discusses their experiences of cultural dissonance as they left the segregated culture of special education and attempted to assimilate themselves into general education classrooms, grades K-8. Their dilemmas, doubts, and hopes for the future are discussed as well as the challenges that attempted cultural assimilation presents for special educators.Keywords
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