Future teachers´ social perception of people with down syndrome: application of the EPSD-1 scale
Supporting Agencies
- Ministerio de Educación
- Fundación para el síndrome de Down (FUNDOWN)
- Fundación Séneca y Fundación Cultural Privada Esteban Romero
Abstract
Attitudes towards people with Down Syndrome (DS) have always been related to the idea of irrationality and rejection (Cáceres, 2004). People with DS have, therefore, been perceived as a nuisance to society. The educational influence of teachers is, no doubt, an essential element to initiate changes towards social awareness. In this respect, we carried out a study in which we analyzed the social perception of students of Education of different aspects of life of people with DS. In this article we present the results collected by means of the Social Perception Scale towards people with DS (EPSD-1) using final year students of Physical Education as a sample group (University of Murcia, Spain, during 2009/2010).
We highlight the need to examine the relationship between social perception and course curriculum.
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