A Study of The Attitudes of Teachers Towards Physically Challenged Students: A Case Study of Patna

Education

Even after 74 years of independence the phenomenal expansion of educational opportunities for the physically challenged children are not enough. It is common assumption in the society that educating a child with physically challenged in general school is inclusion but only if general classroom teachers take responsibilities for the education of physically challenged children and school infrastructure is accessible then it can be considered as total inclusion. There are various studies conducted on inclusive education and attitude of teachers towards differently abled children. Most of these studies are either based on collectively all forms of disability of differently abled children and learning disability of children. There are studies of attitude of teachers towards differently abled children individually on lower primary school, upper primary school, high school and higher secondary school. Moreover studies of attitude of teachers towards physically challenged children is very rare. So, there is a need of extensive study of the attitude of teachers towards physically challenged children of all types of schools (Lower Primary School, Upper Primary School, High School and Higher Secondary School). A study of the attitudes of teachers towards physically challenged students in Patna District of Bihar was investigated. Total Teachers who give responses were 280. Total Female teachers who give responses were 140, out of which 35 were from Lower Primary school, 35 were from Higher Primary school, 35 were from High school and 35 were from Higher Secondary school. Total Male teachers who give responses were 140, out of which 35 were from Lower Primary school, 35 were from Higher Primary school, 35 were from High school and 35 were from Higher Secondary school. The attitude scale was constructed to gather information regarding perception of Teachers towards their physically challenged students. The attitude scale for Teachers consists of total 40 items of questionnaires. And then further divided the total 40 items into 6 dimensions. Considering the observations and findings it is concluded that attitudes of Female Teachers towards physically challenged students are more inclusive in nature as compared to Male Teachers

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