Disability in the Syllabus: exploring teachers’ willingness, educational strategies and teaching mediators

Tackling at school a sensitive subject like disability requires both teachers’ willingness and awarenessabout the importance of dealing with this subject in the classroom and the educational and didacticconcerns. The Italian school, characterized by a long tradition of welcoming children with disabilities,needs the structuring, into the curriculum, of specific proactive interventions, which, using didacticmediators, provide children with a deeper understanding of disability. The design of such educationalinterventions requires a great commitment to teachers because it recalls several factors (categories)including those related to the identification of appropriate teaching strategies, the choice of possiblemediators but above all to questioning the availability, intentionality, opportunity of teachers to proposechildren a theme considered 'sensitive'.With the aim of knowing what are the considerations of the teachers on this topic, it was designed asequential exploratory research, composed by a qualitative and quantitative phases.