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Inclusion of Students With Disabilities in Physical Education: The Crossroads of Systemic Coherence Cover

Inclusion of Students With Disabilities in Physical Education: The Crossroads of Systemic Coherence

Open Access
|Oct 2024

Abstract

This study aims to identify and comprehend the factors and pedagogical practices that facilitate or hinder the inclusion of students with disabilities in physical education classes at school, considering micro and macrosystemic levels. The methodology employed in this study was a case study approach, using an interpretative phenomenological analysis to construct thematic categories of analysis. These categories include: 1.Flexibility of the physical education teacher’s practices and strategies, 2. Teacher training, 3. Inclusive spaces and infrastructure, 4. Involvement of the educational community. The various data collection tools (interviews, focus groups and observations) allowed to portray and illuminate each of the topics of analysis and the contextual differences of the three schools analyzed. The findings demonstrate that inclusive strategies must be coherent and systemic in accordance with the contexts. However, it is possible to highlight inclusive strategies that reveal the importance of teacher commitment, the interconnected work between teachers and school management, the use of expeditious communication channels within the educational community and with governmental levels, the use of implements related to the practice of physical education and the use of the teacher’s voice as the primary agent for the implementation of inclusive learning strategies.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pcssr-2025-0004 | Journal eISSN: 1899-4849 | Journal ISSN: 2081-2221
Language: English
Page range: 37 - 47
Submitted on: May 26, 2024
Accepted on: Sep 9, 2024
Published on: Oct 24, 2024
Published by: Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2024 Belén Fierro-Saldaña, Ernesto Treviño-Villarreal, published by Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw
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