Sports education teachers' attitudes towards integrating students with disabilities into basic education schools in Marj

Abstract

The research aims to identify the attitudes of physical education teachers towards integrating students with disabilities in basic education schools in Marg City in the light of some variables [gender, educational qualification, years of experience] and to achieve this a questionnaire was distributed that measures teachers ’attitudes. The questionnaire included forty paragraphs distributed in two areas [Academic, psychosocial] to determine the direction of the teacher. The sample of the research consisted of male and female teachers of physical education in the basic education schools in Al-Marj city, whose number is [62] male and female teachers.

The research found through the results that arithmetic averages, percentage, standard deviations, test (C) and mono-variance analysis indicate that teachers have positive attitudes towards integrating handicapped students with their ordinary peers in the physical education class, and that there are no statistically significant differences in attitudes between male and female teachers towards integrating Students with disabilities in the share of physical education and all research variables  It has been recommended that a general and systematic policy be activated by all concerned authorities to integrate the handicapped into public schools, and also the need to work on the appropriateness of government schools to provide a study environment that facilitates the task of the handicapped student and teacher to reach the best case of integration.