THE EFFECTS OF TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES ON DISABLED STUDENTS
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This research paper presents a comprehensive review of the effects of teachers' attitudes on disabled students. It examines the influence of positive and negative attitudes of teachers on various aspects of disabled students' educational experiences and outcomes. By synthesizing existing literature, this paper highlights the importance of fostering inclusive attitudes among teachers to promote the academic, social, and emotional development of disabled students. The findings emphasize the need for professional development programs and support systems to enhance teachers' attitudes and create inclusive learning environments. The emphasize of student centered educational topics is usually on the effect of teachers’ attitudes on students’ academical success with a lack of lifespan developmental perspective. A teacher with his teaching methods and furthermore with his attitudes and behaviours, provides his students to gain a mentally healthy personality and to have a new clear world view by leaving unforgettable traces on them. This is a prepatory study to uncover how attitudes of teachers affect the personalities and performances of students. In this sense this study will provide an emic understanding of education and the dynamics of relationship between teachers and students beyond the limited areas of classes and courses. Sample group of research consists of totally 267 students from different departments of Hemchand University Durg,(Chhattisgarh) India, By giving a questionnaire the students were asked to give samples of their primary school, secondary school, high school and university teachers’ positive and negative attitudes and behaviours as well as to tell how it effects their personality development and performances by giving samples. The most important findings of the research evidenced that teachers’ positive attitudes have positively influence students’ personality as well as their life performances. Based on these findings teachers’ role in lifespan education as beyond a simple knowledge transformation is
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