A STUDY ON ATTITUDE OF TEACHERS TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Abstract

The goal of this study was to look into teachers' attitudes about inclusive education because they have a big influence on how successfully inclusive education is implemented. All pre-service and in-service teachers in the Avadi district of Thiruvallur made up the study's population. A sample of 108 pre-service and in-service teachers (connected with primary and secondary schools) from 11 institutions (belonging to the government and private management system) were chosen from this population utilizing the quota sampling technique. We are interested in learning about teachers' perspectives regarding inclusive education in relation to their various demographic factors, such as mode of service, gender, and location. Data gathering involved the use of a questionnaire about instructors' attitudes toward inclusive education. The frequency counts, mean, standard deviation (SD), standard error of mean, and 't' test were used to statistically examine the collected data. Of the total participants (n=108), 48.14 percent were pre-service teachers and 53.33 percent were in-service teachers. Fifty percent of the instructors belonged to the urban region, and the other fifty percent lived in rural areas. The outcome demonstrates that teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education were moderate to good. Teachers in urban and pre-service settings had higher favorable attitudes toward inclusive education than in-service and rural settings, respectively. The attitudes of male and female teachers toward inclusive education, however, did not differ much.