Grasping the Concept of Inclusive School in Slovakia and England - Q Study

• Authors: Katarína Vančíková , Štefan Porubský , Denisa Šukolová , Robert Sabo , Terézia Vaníková

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the study was to identify how education actors of two historically and culturally different countries - Slovakia and England - thought about the concept ’inclusive school’. The Q-methodology was used for this purpose, yielding 7 descriptions of inclusive school. The results indicated two facts: 1) there is a jointly shared semantic field that can be interpreted as a consequence of globalization trends in education, and 2) perceptions of inclusive education are influenced by the history of educational systems in the countries studied. Research findings confirm that despite a certain convergence trend, a local discourse still remains the crucial determining factor of the conceptual grasp of this issue.

Keywords

EN

inclusive school; inclusive education; Q-methodology

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 66
• Pages: 159-169

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Katarína Vančíková

author

Štefan Porubský

• Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica

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Denisa Šukolová

• Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica

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Robert Sabo

• Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica

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Terézia Vaníková

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.21.66.4.13

Biblioteka Nauki

1964335