Higher Education Teachers’ Training in Attention to SEN Students: Testing a Mediation Model
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University Inclusive education Teachers Training Mediation model Special educational needs (SEN)
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2021Referencia bibliográfica
González-Castellano, N.; Cordón-Pozo, E.; Pueyo-Villa, S.; Colmenero-Ruiz, M.J. Higher Education Teachers’ Training in Attention to SEN Students: Testing a Mediation Model. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4908. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/su13094908
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Ministry of Universities through the University Teacher Training Program, Spain (FPU2019)Resumen
There is growing interest in analyzing the evolution of inclusive education in universities,
highlighting the training of teachers as the main barrier to this evolution. The purpose of this
study was to analyze, through a mediation model, to what extent the accessibility and inclusion
of university campuses affect, both directly and indirectly, the continuous training of teachers
in attention to diversity and training demands by teachers in this same area. Participants were
580 teachers from the Faculty of Education of eight Andalusian universities (Spain). The results
revealed that the continuous training of teachers in attention to diversity mediates the negative effect
that accessibility and inclusion of university campuses have on the training demanded by teachers;
this means that the more accessible and inclusive the universities are, the more continuous training
teachers have and therefore the more interest they have in continuing training. There is no empirical
evidence in the literature that this mediation model is used in the field of educational inclusion as a
methodological technique, so it is a very innovative contribution.