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avoid any confusion. All interview questions were created in an easy way

to make the respondents comfortable to provide answers easily.

Table 3: The Interview Schedule

Part Content

Basic information including age, professional and education
Part 01 qualifications, gender, section (primary or secondary), training and
years of experience in teaching
Awareness on the presence of students with SEN within their regular
Part 02 classroom and diversity of those students’ special educational needs

Knowledge of the term ‘Inclusive Education’ and details about the teacher

Part 03 trainings regarding inclusive education
Classroom experiences in teaching students with SEN and how they cope
Part 04 with students with SEN within the regular classroom setting
Difficulties faced by the class teachers when handling the regular

Part 05 classrooms with both students with and without SEN
Teachers’ attitudes towards and perceptions of the placement of students
Part 06 with SEN in the regular classroom
Suggestions of teachers for the betterment of inclusive education in Sri
Part 07 Lankan context

In this study, only the class teachers from both primary and secondary
sections were interviewed. Among them, all the participants had an

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