TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM TO FOSTER INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN THE INDIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS - AN EVALUATION

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the teacher's training program for inclusive education in the context of the Indian schooling system. Substantiating the content with current research work and previous studies that have been conducted on teacher's training programs and inclusive education in India, this research paper made an attempt to highlight the key challenges in teachers' training curricula in India against the successful implementation of inclusive education in the Indian public schools. The paper proposed a few suggestions to improve the teachers' training program with focus on inclusive education.