Resumen de Psycho-social effects of training on the attitudes of special education teachers:: An action-research

Manuela Mauceri, Graziella Di Marco, Orazio Licciardello

• In the italian scolastic and training scenary special education teachers represents the principle resource, not only to facilitate the implementation of the right to education, but also, and above all, the full education of the disable students. In this sense, appears to be essential as training to the self-awareness of how people are in problematic situations (or experienced as such), which, together with the “knowledge”, contributes to the definition of an appropriate interpretation of their professional role.

  In this study, we presented the results of a research with special education teachers, ispired by the Action Research.

  We administered to a group of teachers a semistructured questionnaire before and after their participation to a laboratory, played in a setting of small group, focalized on the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, for interpersonal development and for acquisition of soft-skills.

  The results seem to indicate how the experiential learning active had effects on a more articulated emotional representation of the normal and disable students.