The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of a qualitative research study that revealed the perceptions of teachers, parents and students about educational treatment of diversity. This study is a part of an international research, directed by Dr. Samuel Gento Palacios (from the National University of Distance Education, in Spain) in which we participate with European and Latin American colleagues.

By means of focus groups carried out in different school levels (primary, secondary,high school and college) in different localities, in the State of Sonora (Mexico), we found significative information about subjectivity and representations of teachers, parents and sudents when they reflected on educational treatment of diversity. The findings we now present are also discussed considering the quantitative data gathered previously, to analyze  our research issue in depth from different perspectives.

Our research questions are: what are the attitudes toward inclusion?, how do teachers, parents and students perceive educational treatment of diversity?,  which are the obstacles that hamper educational inclusion?

In spite of the research project we are working in consider a wide source of bibliography,  in this particular study our theoretical framework is specially referred to the works of Gento, S. (2006, 2007, 2008) Frederickson, N. & Cline, T. (2000) and Peterson, J.M. y Hittie, M.M. (2003).

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