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The teacher for teaching in an inclusive classroom must be aware of #R’s i.e., Rights, Roles and Responsibilities. Every child should be given equal opportunities to learn whether he is dull, bright, visually handicapped, orthopaedic handicapped, hearing impaired, delinquent, emotionally disturbed or otherwise deviant. The teacher should provide specialized instructions and support to the student who is in need without labelling him as disabled exceptional. Education of children with SEN (Special Education Needs) should be the responsibility of every teacher. The general role and responsibilities of a teacher in inclusive settings can be summed up as under: ·          Helping the child to grow his potentiality to the optimum. ·          To help students comprehend physical, mental, cognitive differences in humans. ·          Providing enhanced opportunities...

Logical Positivism is logical knowledge which is based on direct experience. It is also known as scientific empiricism. Bertrand Russell, Hume, C. W. Morris, Carnap, Whitehead , Wittgenstein were the prominent scientist / philosophers who propagated this philosophy. Main thought of the Philosophy Carnep is of the view that philosophical thoughts should be analysed logically by using scientific methods. Wittgenstein gave the idea that world is an essence of fact not an essence of any object. He criticized science by saying that science is not an organized form of names but an organized form of sentences. However, the main purpose of above philosophers was to prove the futility of metaphysics. They tried to give a scientific base to philosophy rejecting metaphysics. Thus the basic purpose of logical positivism is to prove metaphysics as meaningless. According to logical positivism there are two ways of knowing: 1.       Knowing by experience 2.  ...

Social Mobility: Social Mobility refers to change in the social status of a person or a group in the context of others. It means the movement of an individual in a social structure. It is either vertical or horizontal. Horizontal mobility is the process of making changes in the same status level while vertical mobility is the process of changing from on status to another either to a higher or lower level. Factors affecting Social Mobility: ·          Structure of the Society: Societies may be of two types, closed societies and open societies. Closed societies maybe backward and narrow minded whereas open societies are thought to be progressive. ·          Religious beliefs and superstitions: If religions followed by people are unscientific in majority of affairs, social mobility will become very difficult, on the other hand, religions interpreted scientifically increase social mobility. ·  ...

Teaching is a social process which aims at maximizing learning. Teaching and learning are related to each other in a bipolar manner which means that where there is teaching, there is learning but where there is learning it is not necessary that it is the result of teaching. Definition of Teaching Model : Teaching models are instructional design which describe the process of specifying and producing particular environmental situations which causes the students to interact in such a way that specific changes occur in their behaviour. Fundamental Elements of Teaching Models: ·          Focus: This element is related to the planning phase of teaching and all the other elements revolve around this. It includes the objectives that are to be realized by teaching. ·          Syntax: In this element, teaching strategies and techniques are selected and their sequence is determined so that suitable learni...