Teacher Efficacy and Perspectives on Disabled Students’ Future Trajectories: Using Research to Facilitate Quality Education Outcomes

• In Event: Roundtable Session 104
  In Roundtable Session: Multicultural Education and Diversity in the Caribbean and Africa

Abstract

The study examines how knowledge derived from an interagency collaboration between the Ministry of Education, UNICEF, and a research team from a local University will be used to enhance the quality of special education services in Barbados. At the heart of the study is the idea that research ought to serve the public good through informing public policy, teacher preparation and practice. In this paper we extract the findings teacher efficacy, and teacher’s perceptions of their students’ future trajectories in Barbados.

Authors

• Stacey Natasha Jillian Blackman, University of the West Indies

• Arthur Glanville Richardson, The University of The West Indies

• Claudette Fong-Kong Mungal, University of the West Indies

• Gerald Rose, University of the West Indies

• Jason Emile Marshall, University of the West Indies

• Erin Mahon, University of the West Indies

• Allyson Pennegan, University of the West Indies

• Martin Timothy Hall, Charles Sturt University