From autumn 2008 Sweden has reinstalled the Special education Needs teacher education. For future Special education teachers and active teachers in the field, it is important to know the history and be aware of future visions to create a good role for the Special education Needs teachers. This study examines attitudes towards Special education and Special education Needs teachers amongst school principals and classroom teachers at seven schools in Umeå municipality. School principals were interviewed, and a survey was handed out amongst the selected General Education teachers. From this it appears that school principals have a picture of special needs education and Special education Needs teachers' work that corresponds well with the objectives of the school's governing documents.

The purpose with this essay is to explore how pupils in a special group of education experience how it feels to be part of this kind of group. Further I want to examine a Special educationalist view of this kind of groups. To perform this essay I choose to interview four pupils and one Special educationalist. Through the interviews I want to discover the pupils and the Special educationalists thoughts and experience. The result has been compared with earlier research and the essay has its basis in different theories.

AbstractThe aim of our study was that from a Preschool Manager?s perspective to describe, analyze and understand the function of Special education and the Special education Teacher?s profession within preschools. We conducted twelve interviews with Preschool Managers in two northern Swedish municipalities. From a theoretical base, we used both the relational and categorical perspectives. All answers from these interviews have been analyzed from these perspectives.

The study aims to examine how the people who have received special needs education during their schooling have experienced it.Since I wanted to take advantage of people's experiences of special needs education, I chose to conduct qualitative research interviews. Five people in the ages of 21-26 years old participated in the study.A summary of the work says that special needs education creates mixed feelings, feelings of joy and alienation. The positive as described in the work is that the Special education teaching has created a classroom that is aligned along the pupil's needs and circumstances. All informants have expressed that their negative experiences is about them having to leave the common classroom.Keywords: exclusion, inclusion, special needs education, student needs.

The purpose with my investigation is that create an image how pedagogues perceive the need of Special education in the preschool. My framing of a question is: How perceive pedagogues the need of Special education in the preschool? The study is written from a qualitative model and the study has been carried out with help of interviews. It is five interviews made. Three of them are made by preschool pedagogues and the other two with Special education pedagogues.

The aim of this essay has been to surrey the perspective of view the Special education teachers have on the tree concepts of Special education, compensatory-, critical and dilemma perspectiveThe questions that have been covered in this study areWhat does the concept of Special education means for the special teachers? What does the concept of mathematic difficulties means for the special teachers?What does the concept of the diagnostics of dyscalculia means for the special teachers?A qualitative research method has been used to answer the questions in this essay. In the purpose to get the most out of the study..

The aim of this essay has been to surrey the perspective of view the Special education teachers have on the tree concepts of Special education, compensatory-, critical and dilemma perspectiveThe questions that have been covered in this study areWhat does the concept of Special education means for the special teachers? What does the concept of mathematic difficulties means for the special teachers?What does the concept of the diagnostics of dyscalculia means for the special teachers?A qualitative research method has been used to answer the questions in this essay. In the purpose to get the most out of the study..

Within Special education, there is a big dilemma where some mean that school should include all pupils in the same school class, regardless of the students' needs for assistance, while others believe that students with special needs to be placed in small adapted groups where students have similar needs is to exclude pupils. While others argue that the inclusion can sometimes lead to exclusion. The aim is to investigate what meaning teachers and Special education teachers gives the concept of inclusion in school and what consequences it entails in teaching. This study is based on a number of qualitative interviews of teachers and specialist teachers to obtain answer of the following questions.Has the concept of inclusion and integration the same significance and meaning according to those asked teachers, special educators and special educators?Which students should be included, according to those asked teachers, special teachers and special teachers?What is required to work from an inclusive perspective, according to the asked teachers, special teachers and special teachers?Perceive the asked teacher, special educators and special teachers some disadvantages of inclusion?Which students receive Special education instruction in the schools were asked?Do the asked teacher, special educators and special teachers think that there is a school for all?The results of this study is that teachers and special instructors have difficulty indistinguishing the concepts and that they puts the same emphasis on inclusion as the integration, the students must adapt to school and not vice versa.

The society?s view of pupils with needs of special support in nine-year school has changed over time in Sweden. The teachers? views of the pupils have had an influence of how the Special education process is designed. The aim with my paper is to make a comparative study of how Special education teachers in rural schools and schools in Stockholm have designed their work with pupils with needs of special support.

AbstractThere is a lot of confusion when it comes to defining Special education. An example of this appears here by a statement from Assarson (2007) "Special education initiates a special pedagogy, but contains no innate sense of what is the special component in it" (p. 52, authors? translation). This study is an attempt to clarify the elements of the concept.

The society?s view of pupils with needs of special support in nine-year school has changed over time in Sweden. The teachers? views of the pupils have had an influence of how the Special education process is designed. The aim with my paper is to make a comparative study of how Special education teachers in rural schools and schools in Stockholm have designed their work with pupils with needs of special support.

The purpose of this study was to gain deeper knowledge about the special needs of guidance significance as an aid to students based on teachers' views and perceptions.Eight teachers from three different municipalities, active in primary school and middle school have been interviewed since all have participated in and have experience with special needs tutoring. Their responses were compiled and answered the three research questions: What experiences have teachers of Special education counseling? How do teachers the guidance they received from a special teacher? What effect has the Special educational guidance given for the inclusive education? The result shows that the Special educational tutorial helps teachers gain a deeper understanding of students in need of special support and guidance to the mission vary in scope and content. The Special educational tutorial that is aimed directly at the teachers seem to have a positive effect on inclusion and a critical/dilemma perspective while the consultative guidance primarily directed towards the adaptation of educational material and allows students to walk out of the classroom to receive Special education promotes exclusion and ability grouping and a compensatory perspectives. From a sociocultural perspective pointing results of the study that teachers with Special education tutoring experience to students in an inclusive education contribute to each other's learning,creating meaningful for everyone involved..

AbstractThere is a lot of confusion when it comes to defining Special education. An example of this appears here by a statement from Assarson (2007) "Special education initiates a special pedagogy, but contains no innate sense of what is the special component in it" (p. 52, authors? translation). This study is an attempt to clarify the elements of the concept.

The purpose of this study is to achieve a greater understanding of the perception of the use of Special educational Needs Coordinators? (SENCOs?) competence in school. The informants of this study are the director of the school district, two principals and six teachers in two schools in a municipality in Sweden. The method used for this study is qualitative interviews, and the results have been analyzed using perspectives on Special education. The results show that the director of the school district has one ideal view of SENCOs working close to the principals with supervision of teachers, school development, administrative tasks etc.

This thesis examines some Special education teachers with experiences of childrendiagnosed with dyscalculia. Problems with mathematics at school may occur to allchildren in all schools. It is therefore important that the teacher knows the variousdisabilities that teachers may encounter. The study is based on four randomlyselected Special education teachers, all-working at schools that are related to amedium-sized Swedish town. This work will immerse in the knowledge ofdyscalculia among four Special education teachers.The interviews revealed that all Special education teachers felt that dyscalculiainvolves specific difficulties in mathematics, their views on dyscalculia is consistentwith current research.