Attitude of Secondary School Administrators and Teachers of Himachal Pradesh towards Inclusive Education

In the present paper, an attempt has been made to find out the attitude of school administrators and teachers in secondary schools of Himachal Pradesh towards inclusive education. Inclusive education is an approach that promotes human development by valuing diversity as an essential component of the teaching and learning process. The idea behind inclusive education is to place students with special needs in the same classroom as other students of their age, who do not have special needs. Children with special needs learn more in regular classroom settings if they receive the necessary assistance and support in and out of the classroom. It is regarded as a novel strategy for educating children with special needs along with children who are normal under the same roof with the aim to meet the educational needs of all. Inclusive education shifts the responsibility for adaptation from the individual student to the educational system. In order to study the attitude of school administrators and teachers towards inclusive education, two districts of Himachal Pradesh i.e. Shimla and Kangra were selected as more CWSNs were enrolled in these two districts during the session 2019-20. All the school administrators and teachers constituted the population of the study but in the present study, 48 school administrators and 144 teachers were considered in the sample. The descriptive survey method was used by the researcher as it best suited the nature and objectives of the study. The findings of the study revealed that both female school administrators and teachers have favorable attitude towards inclusive education as compared to male administrators and teachers.