Learning Community-An International Journal of Educational and Social Development

  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 2

Impact of Including Videos of Inspiring Differentially Abled Personalities on Developing Attitude Towards Disabled Students Among High School Students

  • Author:
  • Roymon Varghese A.1,, Rajagopalan K.2, Freejo K.J.3
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 307 to 311

1Matha, H.S Mannampetta, Thrissur, Kerala, India

2St Josephs College of Education, Pavaratty, Thrissur, Kerala, India

3N.S.S. Training Collge Ottappalam, Palakkad, Kerala, India

Abstract

The major defects of inclusive education is developing negative attitudes among students towards disabled. They treat disabled students as caterpillars or cactus plants in garden full of beautiful flowers. They don't know that these caterpillars will become beautiful butterflies and the cactus plant can have flowers. This knowledge will make them having a positive attitude towards the disabled through which the inclusive education can make an impact on educational system. In order to find out an experimental study was conducted in students of high school and found out that the attitude towards disabled students immensely benefits from the treatment such as collaborating the videos of incredible differentially abled personalities in teaching.

Keywords

Collaborating Videos, Differentially Abled Personalities