A STUDY OF SECONDARY-SCHOOL TEACHERS’ AWARENESS TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

The increasing importance of inclusive education over the last two decades has resulted in a vibrant area of academic scholarship as well as critical studies on the subject. There is an extensive body of research based literature on the subject of inclusive education. Before all else there is a need to sift through the relevant studies on the subject of inclusive education to understand the work already done and finding already made so as to avoid duplication of research work and also to understand the issues involved clearly. The main purpose of the research is to study the awareness of the teachers of secondary school towards inclusive education. In the present paper, I would attempt a comparison on the basis of gender, type of school area and qualification of secondary school teachers as a result of analysis, interpretation and discussion of the data collected from different areas of study the investigator.