Inclusive and Supportive Education Conference, from 3rd – 5th August 2021, London.
Hosted by UCL Centre for Inclusive Education, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
I attended the Inclusive and Supportive Education Conference (ISEC-2021) from August 3rd to August 5th, 2021, in London with my paper titled “Bangladeshi Government Primary School, Teachers’ Training Needs Towards Inclusive Education." That conference was held online from University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. At the ISEC-2021 conference, more than 200 delegates presented their research studies from 30 countries. This was the biggest conference in 2021 on inclusive education. This conference's theme was “Closing the Research to Practice Gap.”
At this conference, I joined and presented my paper, which was a part of my PhD study. I presented my PhD study’s summary in 15 minutes in my presentation. I presented the background and purpose of the study, the methods I used in the study, and a part of the results. My presentation was divided into two parts; one was about the questionnaire development, where I presented the questionnaire’s development and the questionnaire’s validity & reliability tests. Moreover, the second part was related to the results that I got from the statistical analysis. I collected 245 data points from Bangladeshi government primary school teachers and teacher trainers, and I ran Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). I presented those analysis results in my presentation very briefly. However, I discussed an SEM that was created from the data about the relations among the factors for developing government primary school teachers’ training needs towards IE. The presentation of the relations among the factors was my main topic in this presentation because it shows a new way to train Bangladeshi government primary school teachers' training model.
After my presentation, I received several comments and suggestions from the audience. However, the most important comment was that I should see special schools' practice and compare it with inclusive schools.