Exploring inclusive education in times of COVID-19: An international comparison of German, Austrian and Portuguese teachers

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

  • Verena Letzel-Alt
  • Marcela Pozas
  • Susanne Schwab
  • Christoph Schneider
  • Katharina Theresa Lindner
  • Paulo Dias
  • Irene Cadime

With the start of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the global education system has a faced immense challenges and disruptions resulting in and the necessity for an immediate redesign of teaching and learning in the school context. Face-to-face classroom instruction had to be replaced by ‘emergency remote teaching’, requiring teacher to adapt their daily routines to a new and unprecedented educational reality. Researchers and policymakers worldwide have agreed that, despite the fact that efforts were made to immediately adapt to emergency remote teaching, disadvantaged and vulnerable students may be especially at risk in emergency remote teaching. Given the differences in schooling organization across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic it can be expected that teachers performed inclusive instructional practices significantly different. Against the unpredictable situation, cross-country research has been urgently required to provide data that could inform education policy. Thus, this study explored teachers’ perceptions of supporting at risk students during the first COVID-19 school closures, as well as examining teachers’ inclusive teaching practices in three countries: Germany, Austria and Portugal. ANOVA results revealed important country differences. In general, it appears that teachers in Germany and Austria reported to have implemented less practices to address vulnerable and at-risk students compared to Portuguese teachers. Implications of the results, as well as further lines of research are outlined.

Original languageEnglish
Article number969737
JournalFrontiers in Education
Volume7
Number of pages16
ISSN2504-284X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10.10.2022
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Letzel-Alt, Pozas, Schwab, Schneider, Lindner, Dias and Cadime.

    Research areas

  • cross-country, differentiated instruction, emergency remote teaching, inclusion, inclusive education
  • Educational science

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. High-Volume Resistance Training Improves Double-Poling Peak Oxygen Uptake in Youth Elite Cross-Country Skiers and Biathletes
  2. Cradle to Cradle®. From recycling building components to up-cycllng buildings.
  3. Habilitation von Dr. Mark Euler, Leuphana Universität
  4. Virtuelles Experimentieren mit PhET Simulationen
  5. Schreiben ist wie Jonglieren
  6. Meta-custom and the court
  7. Politics of Exception
  8. Hidden Value
  9. Beyond Digital vs. IT
  10. Relationalität I+II
  11. Implicit theories and motivational focus
  12. Beating uncontrolled eating
  13. Gelebte Internationalität
  14. Measuring the diversity of what? And for what purpose?
  15. Dissipation and recycling
  16. WikiEvents - A Novel Resource for NLP Downstream Tasks
  17. Strangely Familiar
  18. You could be lucky
  19. Stretch goals and backcasting: Approaches for overcoming barriers to large-scale ecological restoration
  20. Water, rivers and wetlands
  21. Immaterial Labour and World Order: An Evaluation of a Thesis
  22. Auf allen Märkten zu Hause
  23. Sustainable software products—Towards assessment criteria for resource and energy efficiency
  24. Collective Individuation
  25. Editorial Overview
  26. Weaving Fabrics
  27. Sekem – Humanistic Management in the Egyptian Dessert
  28. “I’ll Worry About It Tomorrow” – Fostering Emotion Regulation Skills to Overcome Procrastination
  29. Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations
  30. Occurrence of the antidiabetic drug Metformin and its ultimate transformation product Guanylurea in several compartments of the aquatic cycle
  31. Plant resource-use characteristics as predictors for species contribution to community biomass in experimental grasslands
  32. Préparer Erasmus: tout un projet
  33. Contrasting temporal trends and relationships of total organic carbon, black carbon, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in rural low-altitude and remote high-altitude lakes
  34. Influence of carbon nanoparticle modification on the mechanical and electrical properties of epoxy in small volumes
  35. Multisensory Design of Retail Environments
  36. Queer Theory After Marriage Equality. Edited collection in the journal "South Atlantic Quarterly"
  37. Plant–flower visitor interaction webs
  38. Ästhetik des Überblicks
  39. Angst
  40. Harmonisierung der Standards zur Klimaberichterstattung?
  41. Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest
  42. Institutional Entrepreneurship
  43. Participation of Adolescents in the Development of a Smartphone App-based Intervention to Promote the Health Literacy
  44. Implementing Environmental Management Accounting in South-East Asian Companies
  45. Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions