Browsing by Author "Kareinen, Suvi"

The means on this study is to find out how teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive eduation have changed in the last ten years, when looking into master’s thesis. Time, when the thesis have been published is between 2012 and 2023. The material was searched from the databases of Finnish universities that has a faculty of education in them. This study is a scoping literature review and the search of material is made like in Fink’s model. The material was analyzed using SWOT-analysis, with a form of material-based content analysis, theming. SWOT-analysis is more familiar from business world and economics. In SWOT-analysis the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are searched from the topic in hand. Strengths and weaknesses come within the topic, and opportunities and threats influence from the outside of the topic. In teachers attitudes towards inclusion strenghts are pupils’ place in a larger group and own attitude. Weaknesses are the lack of eudcation and coping at work. Opportunities are co-teaching, small groups and how inclusion has been accepted. Weaknesses are resources, the growth of pupils in classrooms and the lack of time and the expansion of job description. All the inner factors seem to have grown during the ten years. The meaning of teachers’ own attitude and pupils’ place in a larger group are seen brighter, but on the other hand the lack of education and coping at work are bigger issues than they were ten years ago. From opportunities, the methods of co-teaching have become more diverse and com-mon. Teaching in small groups was seen as a threat at the beginning of the review pe-riod, but with time it has changed to be an opportunity, as teachers are using small groups as a method in their day-to-day work. The lack of resources is still as big of a problem as it was ten years ago and teachers hope to get more adult resource in their classrooms. The growth of pupils in classrooms was commonly discussed in the begin-ning of the time period, but in the latest studies it was not discussed as much anymore. The lack of time and the expansion of job description are both themes, in which the is-sues have grown larger in the last ten years.