Teacher self-efficacy and Special Education: national and international knowledge production review with emphasis in teacher education
The teacher has a fundamental role in the inclusive education realization, being essential, knowledge, motivation and resources. In the motivational context, the importance of teacher self-efficacy, understood as the teacher's judgment about his professional capacities, is emphasized. If a teac...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Educação Especial (UFSM) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/35883 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/35883 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Teacher self-efficacy Teacher education Special Education. Autoeficacia docente Formación docente Educación Especial. Eficácia Formação docente Educação Especial. |
| Resumo: | The teacher has a fundamental role in the inclusive education realization, being essential, knowledge, motivation and resources. In the motivational context, the importance of teacher self-efficacy, understood as the teacher's judgment about his professional capacities, is emphasized. If a teacher has doubts about his/her teaching abilities, he/she tends to visualize a failure scenario that negatively influences his/her effort and dedication, evidencing the importance of high self-efficacy levels, especially in the work with students Special Education public. Therefore, it is important to seek strategies that strengthen it, so that teacher education can be an alternative. This study objective is to verify the knowledge production about teacher self-efficacy in the Special Education context in Brazil and abroad, and to analyze the researches that investigated the education effects on teachers' self-efficacy for school inclusion of students with disabilities, pervasive developmental disorders or giftedness. Articles, theses and dissertations collected from six national and international databases were systematically reviewed, totaling 74 works that relate to self-efficacy and Special Education, five of which are Brazilian. The analysis was based on the reading of the works, elaboration of tables and descriptive statistics. Of the total, 12 researches involving teacher education were qualitatively analyzed and demonstrated that education can increase teacher self-efficacy levels, so that this probability is enhanced by the link between theory and successful practice. It emphasizes the vicarious experiences potentiality in teacher education as one of the main self-efficacy sources. |
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