Teacher Education for Inclusiveness of Students with Disabilities: Evidence from Pakistan

Abstract

This study is aim to investigate teacher education for inclusiveness of students with disabilities. The nature of the study is quantitative. The population of the study is all the public schools teachers across Pakistan. Through online solo data collection techniques randomly (50% males and 50% females) participants from public schools were selected. Data were analysis by means of SPSS. Findings of the study revealed that government has to play its role in inclusive education; teacher training should be mandatory as it prepares teachers to teach diverse classes. Besides, those policy guidelines are not implemented about inclusive education. Moreover education institutions in Pakistan are not prepared to fulfill to the children with special educational need. Lake of teacher training, lake of knowledge on inclusion and non-professional teachers are the major challenges. It is recommended that practical measure need to be taken by the government to implement the policy guideline in national level.