Physical Education teachers' response to conflicts with intellectually and physically disable students

Abstract

The aims of this study are to identify conflicts and determine the frequency with which they involve students with disabilities during physical education classes (EF). A sample of 43 public high school teachers (age = 44.84; SD = 7.718) were interviewed. All teachers included had experience with students with disabilities, and were selected from Support to Special Education Unit centers of Barcelona urban areas. The data collection instrument is a questionnaire to identify conflicts of students with disabilities in relation to different variables (teacher, peers, students with disabilities, teaching resources, teaching materials and resources). Teachers' responses indicate that conflicts occur infrequently. Moreover, teachers' most used teaching strategies and methodologies are curricular adaptations. These are mostly applied to physically disabled students.