A qualitative study on hospital school special educators' education experiences and their needs of support to develop a hospital school management manual

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate hospital school special educators' experiences and their needs of support to develop hospital school management manual. Method: A total of eight special educators of hospital school participated in this study using a purposive sampling. The research design consisted of two in-depth interview sessions including 1st focus group interview for two participants, 2nd focus group interview for six participants in consideration of participants' schedule. The interview time per session was 1 hour and 30 minutes to two hours. Results: The results presented practice of education and management in the hospital school, difficulties of education in hospital school, and requirements to facilitate management of hospital school, content element of operation manual. Conclusion: Based on these results, suggestions to facilitate quality of hospital school education and operation plan were discussed.