JOB SATISFACTION OF TEACHER EDUCATORS IN
RELATION TO THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS TEACHING
Gurmit Singh
INTRODUCTION
A teacher, who is happy
with his job, plays a pivotal role in the upliftment of society. Well adjusted
and satisfied teacher can contribute a lot to the well being of his/her pupils.
A dissatisfied teacher can become irritable and may create tensions which can
have negative influence on the students’ learning process and it consequently
affects their academic growth. Job satisfaction implies the overall adjustment
to work situation. Attitude is readiness
to react towards or against some situation, person or thing in a particular
manner. The attitudes, ideas, feelings and interests of a child are influenced
by the organization of his/her family, thinking of parents and customs of the
society. Personality of parents, their education and their behaviour towards
the children is the basis of development of attitudes. Teachers having
favourable attitude towards their profession are generally successful, properly
adjusted and well satisfied with their job. Conducting a study on the secondary
school teachers of
OBJECTIVES
1. To compare the job
satisfaction of teacher educators with their attitude towards teaching;
2. To compare the job
satisfaction of male teacher educators with their attitude towards teaching;
3. To compare the job
satisfaction of female teacher educators with their attitude towards teaching.
HYPOTHESES
1. There is positive and
significant relationship between job satisfaction and attitude towards teaching
among teacher educators;
2. There is positive and
signification relationship between job satisfaction and attitude towards
teaching among male teacher educators;
3. There is positive and
significant relationship between job satisfaction and attitude towards teaching
among female teacher educators.
METHOD
The study was descriptive
survey type.
Sample
The sample comprised of 250
teacher educators with 100 male and 150 female teachers educators from 20
Colleges of Education affiliated to
Tools
1. Job Satisfaction Scale
(JSS) by Amar Singh and T.R. Sharma (1999) revised version;
2. Teacher Attitude
Inventory by S.P. Ahluwalia (1998) revised version.
Statistical Techniques
Product moment correlation
technique was used to find the relation between job satisfaction and attitude
towards teaching.
RESULTS
Product moment correlations
were worked out between job satisfaction and attitude towards teaching. The
value of correlation between job satisfaction and attitude towards teaching was
0.0456, which was not significant. This leads to the partial confirmation of
hypotheses 1. Hence, job satisfaction of teacher educators thus is positively
but not significantly related to attitude towards teaching. The value of
correlation between job satisfaction and attitude towards teaching was 0.123,
which was positive but not significant. Thus, the hypothesis 2 was partially
accepted. Hence, job satisfaction of male teacher educators is positively but
not significantly related to attitude towards teaching. The value of
correlation between job satisfaction and attitude towards teaching was 0.0034
which was positive but not significant, which leads to the partial confirmation
of hypothesis 3. Thus, relation between job satisfaction and attitude towards
teaching of female teacher educators is positive but not significant.
CONCLUSION
The job satisfaction of
teacher educators was positively but not significantly related to their
attitude towards teaching. The job satisfaction of male and female teacher
educators was also positively but not significantly related to their attitude
towards teaching.
REFERENCE
Umme, K. (1999) A factor analytic study of job
involvement of secondary school teachers in