A Study On The Attitudes Of Primary School Students Towards Disabled Children And Their Interventions

In recent years,along with the promotion of the inclusive education and the development pattern of special education that takes learning in regular class as main body begin to take shape,a lot of disabled children go to primary and secondary schools to receive inclusive education with general students.Previous studies have shown that the attitudes of the general students towards the disabled children in the inclusive education affect the acceptance and interaction of the disabled children,and the attitudes of the general students become an important factor affecting the quality of education for the disabled children.At present,a large number of studies abroad explore the attitudes of general children towards the disabled children and the intervention to the attitudes towards the disabled children.The results show that the general children have negative to neutral attitudes towards the disabled children as a whole,and most of the interventions can significantly improve the general children’s attitudes.Domestic researches mainly focus on the attitudes of adults towards the disabled.The results show that the explicit attitude of the general people is positive,but the implicit attitude is negative.At home and abroad,the research on complete measurement of general children attitudes is very limited,and the research on the measurement of general children’s implicit attitude is lacking;the interventions failed to fully play the main role of the disabled,and the form of intervention is single,and very difficult to implement.Primary school is the initial stage and the main stage of compulsory education and it is also the basic stage of the whole education system in our country.Paying attention to the attitudes of primary school students towards the disabled children can help to improve the peer relationship of disabled children,and improve the quality of inclusive education.Based on the above situation,on the one hand,this study systematically explores the attitudes of the primary school students towards the disabled children;on the other hand,this study also explores the effective measures to intervene to the attitudes of primary school students to the disabled children.This study is divided into two parts: the primary school students’ attitudes towards the disabled children and the intervention to attitudes of the primary school students towards the disabled children.In the first part,the attitudes of the primary school students towards the disabled children are discussed through 3 studies.In the second part,the effective measures to intervene to the attitudes of primary school students to the disabled children are explored through 2 studies.Study 1 revises “Chedoke-McMaster Attitudes Towards Children with Handicaps Scale”(CATCH),and gets the revised Chinese version attitudes towards the disabled children scale(CATCH).Study 2 and 3 respectively measures explicit and implicit attitudes of 990 primary school students towards disabled children using the revised Chinese version CATCH scale and the implicit attitude measurement program for disabled children based on Affect Misattribution Procedure(AMP).The results show that the explicit attitude of the primary school students towards the disabled children is neutral.The cognitive and behavioral intention components in the explicit attitude are neutral and the affective component is positive.Gender,grade and the level of contact with the disabled have significant influence on explicit attitude.The implicit attitude of primary school students towards disabled children is negative.Gender,grade and contact level have no significant effect on implicit attitude.In study 4,a single factor experiment is designed to measure the explicit and implicit attitudes of 117 primary school students before and after the intervention in order to compare the intervention effects of different intervention subjects.The study finds that the intervention implemented by disabled person significantly improve the general students’ explicit and implicit attitudes,and the intervention implemented by general person only significantly improve the general students’ explicit attitude.The intervention implemented by disabled person is effective and feasible,and may be better than one implemented by general person.In study 5,a 2×2 multi-factor experiment is designed to measure the explicit and implicit attitudes of 194 primary school students before and after the intervention in order to compare the intervention effects of different intervention forms.The study found that the intervention in the form of video can significantly improve the explicit attitude of primary school students,and improve their implicit attitude to a certain extent.The effect of live intervention is slightly better than that of video intervention.To sum up,in terms of the attitude of the primary school students towards the disabled children,the explicit attitude is neutral and the implicit attitude is negative.Gender,grade and contact level have significant effect on explicit attitude,but no significant effect on implicit attitude.As far as the intervention to the primary school students’ attitudes towards the disabled children is concerned,the intervention implemented by disabled person is effective and feasible,and may be better than one implemented by general person.The intervention in the form of video is effective and feasible,but its effect may be slightly inferior to the live intervention.Based on the above conclusions,several suggestions are given,including paying attention to and interfering with the attitudes of the primary school students towards the disabled children,considering the disabled people as the intervention subjects,and using the video intervention.