Article Title :
Inclusive Teacher Education in India: Issues and prospects

Author Name :
Dr Kumar Sanjeev

Keyword :
Inclusive Teacher Education

Publisher :
Politic India Publication

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Abstract :
Inclusive Education is meant for all learners including young people with or without disabilities being able to learn together in ordinary pre-school provisions, schools, and community educational settings with appropriate network of support services (MHRD, 2003). But despite of all the efforts of government and non-governmental agencies, many children with disabilities are still denied access to educational institutions due to attitudinal barrier of normal teachers towards these children. More than 2-3 per cent of children with disabilities have access to preschool and school education. The Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) estimates that 30 million disabled children are in need of education; it aims to educate 10 per cent of all disabled children by 2020. RCI (1996) report states that the number of trained special education teacher are extremely small considering the number of children with disabilities that require their services. There were only 9,492 specially trained teachers in India. RCI also projected a need for more than 700,000 professionals and personnel to serve the population of persons with disabilities in India. Hence there is urgent need to train huge number of special teachers to achieve the target. In the present paper the author has tried to explore and analyze pre-service inclusive training programs running across the country. Special focus has also been laid on the analysis of content, input, output and feedback mechanism of the modular inclusive training in Bihar.