The Ratio of Egoistic and Altruistic Types of Inclusive Teachers' Behaviour

Merton (1982) analysed professional altruism in the context of the process of the institutionalisation of altruism in society and developed a typology of altruistic behaviour. The sample comprised 57 inclusive education teachers (all of whom were women aged 30–55 years old). Amongst the 57 teachers, 11 were working in correctional schools and 46 in correctional classes of ordinary (main) schools. All of them were familiar with the system of inclusive education because they had common classes, including healthy children and children with disabilities, and applied some of its elements in their daily practice. Some of them (15%) participated in special grant programmes and training courses on inclusive education. The largest number of respondents demonstrate pseudo-altruistic behaviour (50.8%) and reciprocal altruism (21%); they are equally distant from points such as ‘pure altruism’ (8.7%) and ‘trivial altruism’ (7.5%)