Attitude of Elementary School Teachers Towards Inclusive Education

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Manaswoni Datta, Basudev Kumbhar


Abstract

 In the present study, the researcher intended to assess and explore the attitude of elementary school teachers towards inclusive education in relation to their locality of school, teaching experience and stream of education. The investigator used descriptive survey research method for the present study.The sample consists of 60 elementary school teachers in the district of Cuttack. The stratified-random sampling method has been adopted for the selection of sample Teacher Attitude Scale towards Inclusive Education developed by Arti Anand and Vishal Shood () for the collection of data. For the analysis of data Mean, SD and  t-test have used in the present study. The findings of this study showed that the attitude of elementary school teacher have most favourable attitude towards inclusive education. The study also indicates that there is no significant difference found between the attitude of elementary school teachers towards inclusive education in relation to locality of school, teaching experience and stream of education.


Keywords

Attitude, Inclusive education, elementary school



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