31Aug 2017

A STUDY ON THE ATTITUDE OF TEACHER EDUCATORS FOR PREPARING TEACHERS FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN WEST BENGAL.

  • Assistant Professor Satyapriya Roy College of Education, AA-287, Sector-I, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700064, West Bengal, India.
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Teacher educators are entrusted with the crucial task of preparing student teachers and teachers to facilitate inclusion in their classrooms. Educating Teachers for Diversity: Meeting the Challenge (OECD, 2010) identified a set of key themes that require further attention and discussion in the domain of teacher education for diversity. Among them was the importance of educating the teacher educators themselves. Unfortunately, a lack of research on the teacher educator preparation suggest that educational systems are falling short in a critical way, especially in the area of inclusive education. All teacher educators must possess a necessary positive mindset in order to effectively develop teachers well equipped for addressing diversity and facilitating effective inclusion, and yet no substantial work has been done to find out how far teacher educators are developed to this end. Many questions go unanswered even today, like the professional development of teacher educators for preparing teachers for inclusive classrooms, and what is the role of teacher educators as both consumers and producers of knowledge on inclusive education. Despite the basic nature of these questions, research literature to date does not provide satisfactory answers. The study aims at filling these gaps in our knowledge. It has been done on 400 teacher educators of West Bengal, India.

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[Piku Chowdhury. (2017); A STUDY ON THE ATTITUDE OF TEACHER EDUCATORS FOR PREPARING TEACHERS FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN WEST BENGAL. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Aug). 2210-2216] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

DR.PIKU CHOWDHURY
SATYAPRIYA ROY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5288      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5288

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