Inventive Peer Interactions: Key to Successful Inclusion in Indian Schools

This study was conceptualized with the purpose of tracing the possibility of developing reciprocal relationships among all peers in school while locating the tentative stage in schooling wherein certain response patterns need to be either reinforced or discouraged. While establishing the significance of enhanced peer interaction for the continuing role it plays in developing a view about self and others, the research examines the prevailing thoughts and practices about peer relationships through a research exploration with grade six and grade nine students. The research findings summarily entail that students are willing to form enriching peer relationships for the purpose of collaborating at multiple activities, but do not possess the essential adeptness to do so. This study recommends that students across the various grade levels most specifically at upper primary stage be cultured into peer collaborations with the well focused intervention of the adults around them.