특수학교에 재학 중인 장애아동 부모의 통합교육에 관한 인식

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to identify the viewpoints on inclusive education for parents of the disabled children who attend special schools. The research method used was private interviews. The target for the research were total of eight parents, including four parents of schools for physically disabled children and four parents for schools for mentally disabled children. The research issues of the interview were target interviewee when enrolling in special school and determining factor, pros and cons for special school and class, and the views on the inclusive education. Let's look at some of the important research results, first, the parents who enroll their children with disability usually discuss the issue with parents of normal school and parents with disabled children. The emotional outcomes are confusion and the minds of giving up. The determining factor choosing special schools are stress, emotional damage and the degrees of disability and the notion that disabled children should attend special schools. Second, it shows the contradictory though including negative perspective on pros and cons for special class and special schools. First, the parents stated that the advantages of special school are improving sociality and academic achievement, and disadvantages as negative attitude and target for discrimination as the children go up grades. Then the advantages of special school are mental stability and professionalism and disadvantage as lack of cooperation between teachers and parents, lack of education based on degrees of disability and lack of possible models. Finally, parent's general views on inclusive education are ambivalence coming from hardship in changing perspective and living harmonious with others. Along with understanding the benefits of inclusive education, they sometimes portrayed negative and criticized the concept of inclusive education. For perspective of disabled children, studying while mimicking and sharing contemporary culture were advantages in inclusive education and ethical education was viewed as merit for children without disabilities. Furthermore, most parents pointed out that the major problems with inclusive education and possible methods for improvement are similar concepts. They stated their negative view and how inappropriate educational environment is the problem in inclusive education and emphasized that improvement in societal perspective and educational environment are methods for improving inclusive education.