Actitudes de los docentes y estudiantes hacia las personas con discapacidad en una institución pública.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: the objective is to determine the relationship of the attitudes that schoolchildren and teachers have in a school that is considered inclusive based on some sociodemographic variables. METHODS: quantitative, correlational, cross-sectional study, where the attitudes of 224 participants are evaluated through the scale of attitudes toward people with disabilities. RESULTS: 88.3% of the members of the educational community present ambivalent attitudes, negative attitudes are presented only in students with 1.1%, the factors that have higher percentages of positive attitudes are personal involvement and assumption of roles with 49.6%, there are greater negative attitudes in the primary grades with percentages lower and equal to 20% and according to the participants who have contact with the disability, 52.7% present positive attitudes. ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION: ambivalent attitudes vary according to age, degree and contact with disability in the factor of personal involvement. CONCLUSIONS: Attitudes are very important in the success of the process of educational inclusion, which is why it is necessary to develop and enhance them, above all in those actors that have influence over others.