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Abstract

The fact of teaching students with disabilities into mainstream schools it is not an easy job. In the area of Physical Education exist different barriers being the attitude of students without disabilities one of the most important. Worrying for this, the aim of this study was to see if the experience of being part of a class with a student with disability leads to positive attitudes towards inclusion. Mixed methodology was used: qualitatively, an observation, a field diary and two interviews and quantitatively, 49 adolescents completed the CAIPE-R questionnaire. The study observes that, while all the students show a positive attitude, the results vary depending on the groups. Study concludes that continuous proximity to a student with disability does not always lead to positive attitudes, and that the characteristics of the student with disability and the relationships generated over time will have an influence on how those attitudes develop.