Attitude of Teachers Towards Inclusive Education District Wise Comparison in Punjab

Abstract

The purpose of present research paper was to compare attitude of teachers towards inclusive education on the basis of three districts of majha region i.e., Teacher, Teaching Learning Process, Administrator, Psychological Aspect, Social Aspect, and Evaluation. Out of 22 districts of Punjab 03 districts of majha region (Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran) were selected. From each district 25 elementary schools were selected and from each school 03 to 04 teachers were selected. Data were collected by using the scale to measure attitude towards inclusive education scale for elementary school teachers. The result of one-way Anova followed by t test revealed that teachers of Tarn Taran district had less favorable on dimension ‘Administrator’ of attitude towards inclusive education than teachers of Gurdaspur district and there was no significant difference in the dimension ‘Administrator’ of attitude of teachers towards inclusive education on the basis of Amritsar & Tarn Taran and Amritsar & Gurdaspur districts. This study further reveled that there was no significant difference in the dimensions ‘Teacher’, ‘Teaching Learning Process’, ‘Psychological Aspect’, ‘Social Aspect’ and ‘Evaluation’ of teachers towards inclusive education on the basis of districts. Overall it was concluded that there was not significant difference in Attitude of teachers towards Inclusive Education on the basis of districts.