Teachers’ Perspectives toward Developing Curriculum of Inclusive Education Based on Tyler’s Approach Tyler's approach in inclusive education

Abstract

This study explores teachers' opinions regarding the creation of inclusive education curricula in Karachi's private middle schools using Ralph W. Tyler's approach to curriculum. With its foundations in social justice and equity, inclusive education seeks to give students from a variety of backgrounds equitable chances. A 3-point Likert scale was created by the researchers for this study in order to gather data from children attending various Karachi schools. A survey was made in order to get the relevant data. The research was quantitative in nature. The stratified random technique was used to choose a sample of eighty qualified teachers. The data were analyzed using item analysis technique in which frequencies and percentages were computed to find the opinions of teachers related to the designed items. The results showed that majority of teachers agreed with the hypothesis that Tyler’s approach can be utilized to develop curriculum for inclusive education. Further, it can was found that teachers perceive that it will help in increasing students’ performance. Along with these findings it was also found that teachers think that the main stakeholders like teachers, policy makers and administrators lack resources to implement and execute this customized curriculum in an effective manner.

Keywords: Tyler's approach, Inclusive education, Students performance