Technology can play an important facilitating role in the process of school inclusion by supporting the pupil's
learning and increasing the level of understanding. On the other hand, teachers' beliefs and attitudes towards
the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and how they can play a fundamental role in
the integration of these tools in different educational contexts need to be taken into account.
Various sources (National Institute for Statistic, 2022) on the inclusion of students with disabilities in
school show that training in educational technologies to teaching for Special Needs, especially inclusive
teaching, is still not widespread, although the pandemic period has given a decisive push in this
direction. According to the data, in one out of ten schools no teacher has ever attended a specific course
and, in general, only in half of Italian schools do teachers use digital tools for teaching.
The aim of this paper is to investigate the reasons for this still wide gap and the motivations for not using
ICT in didactics, through a research with a non-probabilistic sample of two hundred teachers in training
(Active Formative Apprenticeship and in-service training), using a Mixed Method Approach to investigate
the resistances and motivations for this phenomenon.
In particular, a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were used to investigate how much
teachers use ICT for inclusive teaching, how competent they are in the use of ICT and how it is used.
The data collected was further explored through semi-structured interviews, trying to bring out especially
the critical and positive aspects experienced by teachers in their use of ICT in the classroom. The paper
also attempts to explore how specific initial and in-service teacher training can contribute to the
acquisition of the necessary skills to use ICT in an inclusive perspective.
