PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Zilcher, Ladislav
AU  - Chytrý, Vlastimil
AU  - Lanková, Barbora
TI  - The Influence of Teacher's Competences on Pupils' Attitudes towards People with Disabilities
DP  - 2019 Oct 8
TA  - Online Journal of Primary and Preschool Education
PG  - 37--45
VI  - 3
IP  - 1
AID - 10.21062/ujep/330.2019/a/2533-7106/OJPPE/2019/3/37
IS  - 2533-7106
AB  - The article deals with a quasiexperimental designed research project implemented in the Czech Republic. The research was aimed at finding possible predictors of changes in attitudes of pupils in the upper elementary school towards people with disabilities. A total of 102 teachers and 1714 pupils participated in this quantitative study. The outcomes of the research open up different ways to modify pupils' attitudes towards people with disabilities. Admissions of a pupil with a disability into a mainstream class show the attitudes of classmates as a basic barrier. This research focuses on the possible combating of these barriers and on strategies for modifying pupils' attitudes in upper elementary schools.