The study is concerned with the process of socialisation
of teachers in the teaching profession. Drawing on
socialisation theory the study sees the process of
secondary socialisation in teacher preparation as
building skills and enabling personal development. It was
predicted that in the transition from the training
institution to the first years of teaching, the degree of
job satisfaction and commitment to teaching would be
related to the degree of conflict experienced and that
job satisfaction and commitment would be less for
beginning teachers compared with that anticipated by
trainees. Conflict was seen as appropriately measured
by the difference between personal professional attitudes
and occupational values one the one hand and the
professional attitudes and occupational values perceived
to be held by senior teachers on the other.
Seventy-three final year trainee teachers at the Canberra
College of Advanced Education and 47 beginning teachers
in their first two years of teaching in Canberra primary
and secondary schools, were selected as the sample.
Previously validated instruments were used in a questionnaire.
The findings clearly showed the existence of conflict
between personal professional attitudes and occupational
values and the perceived professional attitudes and
occupational values of senior teachers. The difference
in conflict between trainees and beginning teachers was
small and tended to decrease. However, there was a marked
increase in variance of conflict scores for women conpared
to men. For women also, conflict was highly related to
job satisfaction.
Thc findings suggested that men tend to be more
homogeneous in their adaptation to teaching and
are more inclined to be satisfied and committed despite
holding professional attitudes and occupational
values which conflict with those of senior teachers.
The study discusses some of the imlications of
the findings for the training institution and
the importance, particularly for women teachers,
of coping with conflict in the teaching situation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/218634 |
| Date | January 1977 |
| Creators | Morey, Bruce E, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Bruce E Morey |
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