The Use Of Art Therapy Among Male Teachers Of Students With Learning Disabilities In Saudi Arabia
Students with learning disabilities experience difficulties in social, emotional, and academic achievement. These problems are due to the lack of communication skills that influence the students’ way of interacting with other individuals in their learning environment. Art therapy, which uses the...
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Format: | Thesis |
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2018
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Summary: | Students with learning disabilities experience difficulties in social, emotional,
and academic achievement. These problems are due to the lack of communication
skills that influence the students’ way of interacting with other individuals in their
learning environment. Art therapy, which uses the creative process of art making to
improve a person’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being, has been introduced
and utilised as an effective tool to help people to overcome the problem which they
encounter. Thus, the primary goal of this study was to examine the factors that
influence the use of art therapy among special education teachers who are teaching
students with learning disabilities in Saudi Arabia. Other goal of this study was to
examine the support system and the attitudes of the special education teachers towards
the use of art therapy. In order to achieve these goals, this study was designed with
both quantitative and qualitative approaches in which 233 special education teachers
who are teaching students with learning disabilities in Saudi Arabia were randomly
selected from the population of this study to constitute the quantitative sample of the
study (using questionnaire). 10% of these respondents (23 teachers) were involved in
the semi-structured interviews to support the quantitative findings. For the purpose of
data analysis, Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) has been used to analyse
the quantitative data of the questionnaires. The thematic analysis technique was used
to analyse the interview data. |
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