1Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, School of Management Studies & Commerce, VELS University, Chennai
The study was carried out to find the attitude of teachers towards inclusive education and the factors affecting it. A total of 60 teachers as respondents were involved in this study. The researchers conducted the research using the Descriptive Research Design. Descriptive Research is a scientific method which involves opening and describing of an individual without influencing the individual in any way. The tools used for data collection from the sampling were questionnaire. This questionnaire was prepared after a considerable and deep understanding of the research problem, discussion with experienced researchers, extensive study of pertinent literature and contextual imagination. The tentatively formed questionnaire was pre-tested with few samples to detect the shortcomings. The questionnaire used in this study included a scale which was derived from various other scales used to study the attitude of teachers towards inclusive education. The researchers used convenient sampling as sampling design to select the schools and teachers for gathering information. The researchers used convenient sampling due to many schools unavailability and used convenient sampling to select teachers due to unavailability of a proper list of teachers to select randomly. The respondents in this study are primarily having a positive attitude towards inculcating inclusive education in their respective schools, but are widely influenced by the type of disability that the children have when inclusion is decided upon. It can be found that most of the respondents are aware about what inclusive education is, its advantages as well as the difficulties it brings but still have a positive attitude towards inclusive education.
Inclusive education, attitude, teachers, Descriptive
