What Teachers Know and How Teachers Feel

What does it take to truly include a child with dyslexia in a mainstream classroom? Not policy. Not goodwill. Not a degree. This volume answers that question with the rigour of doctoral research and the clarity of a scholar who has lived inside the data.

Built on a landmark study of 630 primary school English language teachers across six districts of Kerala, What Teachers Know and How Teachers Feel reveals a finding that challenges everything teacher education has assumed: it is not training in inclusive strategies that most powerfully shapes teacher attitude toward students with dyslexia -- it is knowledge of what dyslexia actually is.

Awareness of dyslexia -- its neurological basis, its phonological processing profile, its independence from intelligence -- had a moderate positive relationship with inclusive attitude. Awareness of inclusive practices alone had only a low positive relationship. This asymmetry is the book's central paradox, and its most urgent lesson.

Inside this volume: Why gender, age, and postgraduate qualification do not predict inclusive attitude -- and what does Why teachers with more than 10 years' experience significantly outperform their junior colleagues on every measure The neurological turn: how understanding the dyslexic brain restructures the teacher's mental model of the struggling reader

The original Attitude-Awareness Nexus Model (AANM-IE) -- a theoretically grounded framework for transforming teacher education Three-level roadmaps for change at the teacher, institution, and policy levels Deep engagement with Ajzen, Bandura, Shulman, Borg, Pajares, Snowling, and the global inclusive education literature

This is Volume 2 of the Reading Every Child series -- a scholarly series on dyslexia, inclusive practices, and the English language teacher in India. It is written for teacher educators, school leaders, researchers, and every teacher who has ever looked at a child who cannot read and not known what she was seeing.

The moderate majority can become the effective majority. The tools are already in our hands.