EXPLORING THE AWARENESS LEVEL OF DYSCALCULIA AMONG THE GREEK PRIMARY TEACHERS

Авторы

  • Efthimios Dimakis Mathmetician of Special Education, PhD Candidate, Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
  • Maria Pardali PhD, Scientific Collaborator of European University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Education, Cyprus
  • Spyridon-Georgios Soulis Professor of Special Education, Director of the Laboratory of Special Education and Training, Department of Primary Education. University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejse.v11i1.5837

Ключевые слова:

dyscalculia, opinions, knowledge, special primary education teachers, Greek teachers

Аннотация

This quantitative study aimed to collect and analyse information from special primary education teachers regarding their knowledge of dyscalculia. One hundred thirty-one specialist primary school teachers were asked to answer a questionnaire with five main factors of study (concept and content, causes, characteristics of primary school pupils, effect on students, and intervention). Five different scores and one total score were created for the five factors, whose mean value and standard deviation show the trend of the degree of knowledge. In all the questions, the participants expressed moderate knowledge of dyscalculia. Particularly, the participants expressed moderate knowledge of the factors of concept and content and characteristics of primary school students and interventions, barely knowledge of the causes, and no knowledge of the effect on students. Summarizing, the participants expressed moderate knowledge of dyscalculia and demonstrated the need to be educated and trained on the specific learning difficulty.

 

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  • Efthimios Dimakis, Mathmetician of Special Education, PhD Candidate, Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    PhD candidate Efthimios Dimakis is a special education and training mathematician in a secondary education school. His interests concern the special teaching methodology for visually impaired students in the field of mathematics as well as the research of dyscalculia.

  • Maria Pardali, PhD, Scientific Collaborator of European University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Education, Cyprus

    Maria Pardali is a PhD from the University of Athens, Scientific Associate and Lecturer at the Higher School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPAITE) -Specialization Program in Counseling and Guidance (PESYP) and Scientific Associate at the School of Educational Sciences of the European University of Cyprus.

  • Spyridon-Georgios Soulis, Professor of Special Education, Director of the Laboratory of Special Education and Training, Department of Primary Education. University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Dr. Spyridon-Georgios Soulis is Professor of Special Education at the Department of Primary Education, School of Education, University of Ioannina, Greece. He holds a PhD in Special Pedagogy from the University of Cologne, Germany. Dr. Soulis has almost thirty years of research, writing and working experience with students with disabilities.

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2025-02-26

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Том 11 № 1 (2025)

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