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- Title
Exploración de las actitudes hacía las matemáticas de futuros profesores de educación especial.
- Authors
Marcos López-Mojica, J.; García-García, Jaime I.; Ramírez Cruz, José Carlos; Arredondo, Elizabeth H.
- Abstract
Based on the phenomenon of teacher de-professionalization that predominates in Special Education in Mexico, the present research aimed to explore the attitudes manifested by future teachers of this modality of the Mexican educational system towards mathematics, in the face of the professional competence declared by counseling against the learning difficulties of this science. The study of attitudes could be a prelude to indicate the type of mathematical knowledge to be developed in future Special Education teachers. For the above, a Likert-type scale was applied to 200 students of the Bachelor's Degree in Special Education from a public university in Mexico. The results (reliable under an internal consistency analysis or Cronbach's alpha coefficient, α = 0.85) suggest a positive trend towards the three characteristic components for attitude: cognitive, behavioral, and affective. In particular, the component that presents a greater positive attitude is the cognitive one, which shows that students attach importance to mathematics and the knowledge of the discipline in their professional training.
- Subjects
MEXICO; SPECIAL education teachers; CRONBACH'S alpha; BACHELOR'S degree; SPECIAL education; PUBLIC universities &; colleges
- Publication
Tecné, Episteme y Didaxis, 2021, Issue 50, p15
- ISSN
0121-3814
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17227/ted.num50-14210