• Renu Rani

Generally, the term ‘inclusion’ in relation to education is used either for the placement of children with disabilities in the mainstream schools or to end the exclusion of children with disabilities from mainstream schools. But in reality, it is not only limited to inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools but is used to provide intensive educational support to all and bring changes in existing policies, practices and attitudes of the community to make the school environment more flexible to meet the diverse learning needs of all learners. However, there are certain issues that act as barriers to the successful inclusion of children with visual impairment or other type of disabilities. One of the biggest barriers is the attitudes of the teachers. This attitudes of the teachers are affected by several factors like age, gender, locality of school, teaching experience and so on. So, this study aimed to investigate the attitude of teachers towards inclusion of students with visual impairment. A total of 50 general classroom teachers teaching in Government Senior Secondary Schools of Thanesar block of Kurukshetra district were selected as sample. A teacher attitude scale was used for data collection. The collected data were statistically analysed by using mean, standard deviation and t-test. The result of the study revealed that majority of the teachers neither possess positive nor negative attitude towards inclusion. This study also reported that factors like gender and locality of school do not influence the attitude of teachers towards the inclusion of students with visual impairment.

Attitude, Inclusive Education, Inclusion, Students with Visual Impairment, Teachers.

"ATTITUDE OF TEACHERS TOWARDS INCLUSION OF STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no.b423-b429, July-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207149.pdf

"ATTITUDE OF TEACHERS TOWARDS INCLUSION OF STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no. ppb423-b429, July-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207149.pdf