Attitude of B.Ed. Student Teachers towards Inclusive Education

Exploring the Attitude of B.Ed. Student Teachers towards Inclusive Education in Kohima

Abstract

Positive attitude of teachers towards inclusion is essential for the success of inclusive education. This paper investigates the attitude of student teachers undergoing the two year Bachelor of Education programme in secondary teacher education institutions of Kohima town under Nagaland University. Descriptive survey with simple random sampling was employed for selecting 94 student teachers from both Government and private colleges for the study. Mean, S.D, and t-values between the different variables were computed using SPSS. The findings revealed that there is significant difference in the attitude of pre-service and in-service student teachers. No significant differences were found between male and female, graduate and post graduate student teachers. The study revealed that a majority of 65 of the student teachers hold positive attitude towards inclusive education wheras17 had negative attitude towards inclusive education. The rest 18 of student teachers had a neutral attitude towards inclusive education.