Psychological Readiness of Future Teachers to Implement an Inclusive Approach in Education: Formation and Assessment in the Learning Process

The relevance of the research is determined by a new social demand related to the implementation of inclusive education, the need to transform the content, forms and methods of professional training of future teachers in order to form their professional readiness to work in an inclusive educational space. The subject of a meaningful and structural analysis is the psychological readiness of future teachers to implement an inclusive approach in education within the framework of competence-based and axiological approaches. The study was conducted using theoretical methods-analysis, generalization, comparison, systematization. The main features of inclusive thinking as the basis of psychological readiness of future teachers for inclusive practice are selected: acceptance of inclusion as a normal way of functioning of an educational institution; understanding of an inclusive educational space as open to everyone; reorientation of the priorities of a teacher’s professional activity from achieving academic results to creating conditions for the formation of life competencies and successful socialization of children with disabilities; orientation to team interaction with all participants in the educational process, etc. The experience of forming the psychological component of inclusive readiness of future teachers is described in detail. It is argued that the technologies of contextual learning most meet the tasks of forming the psychological readiness of future teachers to implement inclusive practice. The scientific data on the methods of assessing the psychological readiness of teachers to implement inclusive practice are summarized. It is shown that the formation and qualified assessment of the psychological readiness of a future teacher to work in an inclusive education should be of a systematic and complex format. The presented materials can be taken into account when designing the content of professional educational programs in order to increase the effectiveness of the formation of future teachers’ psychological readiness to work in an inclusive practice. Keywords: professional readiness, inclusive readiness, psychological readiness of future teachers to implement an inclusive approach in education, inclusive thinking, formation and assessment of competencies