Changes in self-concept of students with and without motor disabilities after an inclusive teaching intervention in Physical Education

This work shows the incidence of an inclusive teaching intervention in Physical Education on self-concept of students with motor disability. Six teachers from three different schools and 168 students from Secondary Education (88 boys and 80 girls with a mean age of 14,04 years), nine of which had a motor disability (five boys and four girls) participated in the study. A quasi-experimental design contemplating an A-B model (before-after) and including the development of a formative intervention between both phases was implemented. To value the incidence of this intervention on self-concept we employed the AF5 standardized questionnaire of self-concept (Garcia & Musitu, 2001), which was administered to all students in the two phases of an investigation that was developed throughout an academic course. The results show that while in students without motor disabilities stability is observed in the evolution of the self-concept mean scores, a significant improvement of all dimensions of the same is observed in students with motor disability and, to a greater extent, in the physical self-concept. This suggests that those students are sensitive to an inclusive teaching intervention that favors their active and significant participation in motor tasks.