Abstract
The process of education is shaped and made by the teachers who play a pivotal role
in web of educational system. Teaching characteristically is a moral enterprise and
its function is aimed at guiding and working desirable growth in others. The need to
know more about teacher and teaching stems not only from the commonness of the
phenomenon, but also from the realization that our notion of teacher and teaching
guides our future endeavors. There is a dearth of empirical evidence about the
attitude of teachers towards their profession. Quantitative research methodology
was deployed using descriptive design. The study included 160 pre and in-service
elementary school teachers for which equal representative was given to pre and inservice teachers and both genders. The participants included 80 male and 80 female
teachers. A three point validated and reliable attitude scale was used to gather the
data which comprised 30 statements. The results of the present study revealed that
the majority of teachers working in the elementary school and also the prospective
one’s had less or not favorable attitude towards the teaching profession. The reasons
for such attitude seemed to be justifiable, because of the working conditions and
academic environment in schools as mentioned by the teachers were sufficient
enough to be the great source of influence, development and reinforcement of a
particular type of attitude. The study recommends the induction of teachers with the
positive and more favorable attitude towards teaching profession.
Irshad Ahmad Farrukh, Uzma Shakoor. (2018) A Comparative Study of the Attitude of the Male and Female Elementary School Teachers towards Teaching Profession, Journal of Education and Educational Development, volume 5, 5.2.
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