S, Patanrasd. (1998). A Study of the Attitude of Student Teachers Towards the Teaching Profession and Globalization with Reference to Certain Variables. Unpublished. Ph.D., Education. Sardar Patel University, Gujarat.
The objectives of the study were: (1) To study the level of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of teaching profession and globalization. (2) To study the factors affecting the level of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of teaching profession and globalization i.e. sex, socio-economic status, academic performance, area of college and major subject. (3) To study the relationship between attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of teaching profession and the attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of globalization. The hypotheses of study were: (1) The level of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of teaching profession is in medium level. (2) The level of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of globalization is in medium. (3) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of teaching profession with reference to sex. (4) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of teaching profession with reference to socio-economic status i.e. the level of education of guardians, the level of monthly income of guardians and the occupation of guardian. (5) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of teaching profession with reference to the level of academic performance. (6) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of teaching profession with reference to major subject. (7) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of teaching profession with reference to area of colleges. (8) There is no significant relationship between the attitude of student teachers towards teaching profession and the attitude of student teachers towards globalization. (9) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of globalization with reference to sex. (10) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of globalization with reference to socio-economic status i.e. the level of education of guardians, the level of monthly income of guardians and the occupation of guardian. (11) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of globalization with reference to the level of academic performance. (12) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of globalization with reference to major subject. (13) There is no significant difference between mean score of attitude of student teachers towards various aspects of globalization with reference to area of colleges.
The sample comprised of 1,200 student teachers of Thailand. Simple random sampling was used.
Tools used for data collection were: The respondent’s personal information, and the scale to measure the attitude of student teachers towards teaching profession and globalization constructed and standardized by the investigator.
survey method was used in the study
The Alpha reliability coefficients of the scales were 0.92 and 0.91 respectively. ANOVA, Standard Range Statistics Test, t-test and correlation were calculated for data analysis.
The findings of study were: (1) The attitude of student teachers towards teaching profession is in medium level. (2) Sex of student teachers is the factor affecting the teaching profession on the whole and different components i.e. job satisfaction, achievement of work, recognition, challenging of work, salary, and welfare and working condition, which is in favor of female. (3) Sex of student teachers is the factor affecting the globalization and different components i.e. system of teaching and learning, curriculum, knowledge about innovation, perception of innovation, progress of teaching, which is in favor of female. (4) Socio-economic status (level of education of guardians) of student teachers is the factor affecting the teaching profession and different components i.e. job satisfaction, achievement of work, advancement, recognition, salary and welfare and working condition, which is in favor of education level having bachelor onwards and diploma. (5) Socio-economic (monthly income of guardians) of student teachers is the factor affecting the teaching profession and different components i.e. job satisfaction, achievement of work, recognition, advancement, challenging of work, salary and welfare and working condition, which is in the favor of higher income groups. (6) Socio-economic (occupation of guardians) of student teachers is not the factor affecting the teaching profession and different components. (7) Academic performance of student teachers is the factor affecting the teaching profession and different components i.e. achievement of work, recognition, advancement, challenging of work, salary and welfare and working condition, which is in favor of students having high academic performance. (8) Major subject of student teachers is not the factor affecting the teaching profession and different components except recognition. (9) Area of colleges of student teachers is the factor affecting the teaching profession and different components i.e. job satisfaction, achievement of work, recognition, advancement, challenging of work and working condition and it is in the favor of central, north-eastern and northern in total score. (10) The attitude of student teachers toward globalization is in medium level. (11) Sex of student teachers is the factor affecting the globalization and different components i.e. system of teaching and learning, knowledge about innovation, and perception of innovation except the progress of teaching profession and curriculum, which is in favor of female. (12) Socio-economic status (level of education of guardians) of student teachers is the factor affecting the globalization and different components i.e. system of teaching and learning, curriculum, knowledge about innovation, and perception of innovation and progress of teaching profession, which is in favor of education level having bachelor onwards and diploma. (13) Socio-economic status (monthly income of guardians) of student teachers is the factor affecting the globalization and different components i.e. system of teaching and learning, curriculum, knowledge about innovation, perception of innovation and progress of teaching profession, which is in the favor of higher income groups. (14) Socio-economic status (occupation of guardians) of student teachers is not the factor affecting the globalization and different components except curriculum, which is in the favor of government group of SES. (15) Academic performance of student teachers is the factor affecting the globalization and different components i.e. system of teaching and learning, curriculum, knowledge about innovation, perception of innovation and progress of teaching profession, which is in the favor students having high academic performance. (16) Major subject of student teachers are not the factor affecting the globalization and different components. (17) Area of colleges of student teachers is the factor affecting the globalization and different components i.e. curriculum, knowledge about innovation, and progress of teaching profession, which is the favor of northern part group of area of colleges. (18) There is the positively relationship between attitude of student teachers towards teaching profession and attitude of student teachers towards globalization.
Keyword(s): Attitude, Teaching Profession , Globalization, Certain Variables