Educational Issues, Vol. 7 No. 2, 2024.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.53577/oot.7.2.7
Special Education Teachers’ Attitudes, Motivation, and Competencies for Using Assistive Technology
Anja Gajić
; Univerzitet u Beogradu – Fakultet za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitaciju
Bojana Arsić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6728-3779
; Univerzitet u Beogradu – Fakultet za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitaciju
Ana Lukić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6728-3779
; Univerzitet u Beogradu – Fakultet za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitaciju
Abstract
People with intellectual disabilities (ID) experience difficulties in all domains of daily functioning, and assistive technology (AT) can be used as a way to overcome some of these deficits. The objective of this paper is to review the research conducted to examine the attitudes and motivation of special education teachers towards the use of AT, as well as research aimed at examining the level of competence of special education teachers in the application of AT. A review of the available literature was conducted using the Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, and ProQuest search engines, and the review included those articles that are of a review and research nature, which sampled special education teachers, as well as teachers who work with people with ID, and which were published in the last ten years. This review showed that special education teachers were motivated to use AT in teaching, and that they demonstrated positive attitudes toward its use, however, they did not have sufficiently developed competencies for using AT. Due to all of the above, it is of great importance to conduct training aimed at increasing the competencies of special education teachers in the field of AT, because in this way their attitudes and motivation towards further use could be improved.
Keywords
Assistive technology; Special education teachers; attitudes; motivation; competencies
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325451
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Publication date:
27.12.2024.
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