Inclusion loses its rosy tint

Abstract

Probationers become significantly less enthusiastic about inclusion after their first year in teaching and take a similar view to colleagues who have been in the job for decades, a recent study has found. When teachers were fresh out of college, educational psychologist Chris Boyle found, their ideals were more 'rose tinted'; then 'reality kicks in'. After one year, there was no difference between the way a new teacher perceived inclusion and a teacher who had been in the profession for 30 years, he said.