The evaluation of the views of physical education teacher candidates regarding mainstreaming curriculum for students with special needs

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate physical education teacher candidate's opinions relating to the students who has special needs in their inclusive education.In this research, descriptive survey model was used. The samples was formed from the information gathered from the candidate physical education teachers who continue their courses in physical education departments of DokuzEylül University, İzmir and Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey.The Survey of Inclusive Education which was developed and used in Aksüt, M., Battal, İ. ve Yaldız, F.'s (2005) "The Competence of Class Master Candidates in Faculties of Education on Inclusive Education" and the Personal Verse Form that was developed by the researchers was used in this research. Analysing the gathered information is done by using SPSS software.The co-relation amongst the teacher candidates' competence in inclusive education and their age, gender, marital status, having a handicapped person in their families, receiving special and inclusive education has been examined.As the result of the research, the difference between teacher candidate's competence in inclusive education and their age, receiving special or inclusive education is found to be worth considering.