A Review of Inclusive Education Contents included in Teacher Education Courses: Bangladeshi Context

The purpose of the study is to explore the contents of inclusive education in different teacher education programs in Bangladesh. Here the researcher intended to review all the existing curriculum of teacher education programs and review the contents that are related with inclusive education. Three types of tools were developed to justify and support the research questions. Findings of the study show, regarding the contents of inclusive education, there are three different situations exist in teacher education programs. One situation is, some teacher education programs provide a full course of credit hours on inclusive education; another is, some teacher education programs have included some contents of inclusive education that is relevant with inclusive education fully or partially; and the other situation is no content is included at all in some teacher education programs. The contents are fairly contextualized but inclusive education specialists addressed some more modifications that can make it more contextualized and give the participants to get the opportunity to have hands on experience.