A study on the current situation and characteristics of collaboration between administrators and special education teachers in primary schools in Bangkok Thailand

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study current situation of collaboration between administrators and special education teachers in primary schools. 2) to study the characteristics of collaboration between administrators and special education teachers in primary schools. The participants were administrators in six schools in Bangkok under three different authorities: Office of the Basic Education Commission, Office of the Bangkok Education Administration, and Office of the Private Education Commission. The school administrators were selected to participate in focus group by purposive sampling. The data were collected through documents, and focus group discussion. The content analysis is employed to analyzed the data. The results of the research revealed that 1) the current situation of collaboration between administrators and teachers in primary schools was (1) Some administrators seem to be aware of children with special needs education and working with special education teachers and teachers in their schools (2) administrators provided inclusive classroom in school (3) they have problems in deliver active learning activities for children with special needs, (4) school environment do not meet the need of students with special needs (5) parents highly expect administrators, teachers and special education teachers to help and teach their children with special needs (6) School lack of support from a multidisciplinary team. 2) The characteristics of collaboration between administrators and special education teachers in primary schools consisted of five areas which were Leadership, Ethic, Participation, Attitude, and Instruction or LEPAI model. © 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.