Attitude of inclusive teachers trained by sarva shiksha abhiyan towards inclusive education of the children with intellectual disability in asif nagar mandal, hyderabad

The purpose of the study is to analyze the “attitude of inclusive teachers trained by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan towards inclusive education of the children with intellectual disability in Asif Nagar Mandal, Hyderabad. The study is a descriptive research design used by survey method. The views of inclusive teachers in the areas of attitude towards concept of inclusive education, attitude towards strategies to improve inclusive education and attitude towards collaboration between inclusive teachers and regular teachers. The questionnaire was used to analyze the attitude of inclusive teachers’ towards inclusive education of the children with intellectual disability. The sample size of the study was 40 inclusive teachers’ (male 18 and female 22), from Government schools in Asif Nagar mandal, Hyderabad and the random sampling technique was used for the selection of the sample. The analysis of the data was done by using software called SPSS. To find out the attitude of the subjects towards inclusive education of the children with intellectual disability, the investigator compared with the variables age, gender, educational qualifications and teaching experiences. The independent t-test was used to compare the attitudes of the subjects towards inclusive education of the children with intellectual disability within the two groups of the variables. Finally the investigator found that there is no significance difference among the inclusive teachers towards inclusive education of the children with intellectual disability with respect to age, gender, educational qualifications and teaching experiences. Hence the researcher has been rejected the hypotheses at 0.005 levels. As the study shows that attitude of inclusive teachers towards inclusive education of the children with intellectual disability was highly positive.