Postoje studentů a učitelů k učitelství jako profesi

PaedDr. Marta Rybičková, Ph.D.

Disertační práce

Attitudes of Students and Teachers towards the Teaching Profession

Anotace:

V předložené práci se věnujeme učitelství jako profesi a postojům studentů a učitelů k učitelství. Vymezujeme některé zásadní problémy učitelství z hlediska atributů profese. Zabýváme se oblastí autority a autonomie učitelství, společenským statutem a prestiží učitelství, pozornost věnujeme také profesním organizacím učitelů a standardu profese učitelství. Uvedené atributy podle možností sledujeme také v postojích k učitelství jako profesi. Provedli jsme rozbor dosavadních výzkumů, které se zabývaly postoji k učitelství. Výsledky vlastního výzkumu jsme využili k hledání společných znaků postojů k profesi a ke sledování tendencí v těchto postojích.

Abstract:

This dissertation work concentrates on the teaching profession and teachers as well as teacher students' attitudes towards the teaching profession. Teaching is seen as profession, although it is generally labelled as semi-profession, i.e. it does not meet all what is attributed to a profession. Some of the fundamental problems of teaching are addressed from the perspective of profession attributes in this work. The work also focuses on authority and autonomy in teaching, the social status and prestige of the teaching profession; professional organisations and the standard of the teaching profession are discussed. These attributes are analysed in teachers' attitudes to the teaching profession. Research carried out between 1973 and 2005 in the field of attitudes to the teaching profession is discussed and data from our own research are presented. In our own research project, we concentrated on the socio-demographic profile of teachers and teacher students and their attitudes towards the teaching profession. The research aimed at the following fields: - selecting teaching carrier (main motives to become a teacher); - the pros and cons of the teaching profession and the prestige of teaching; - perspectives in the teaching profession. One of the long term tendencies in the socio-demographic profile of student teachers is the tendency of their parents to be upper-secondary schools graduates. There has been a decline in the number of parents with lower-secondary education. An increase in the number of parents - university graduates has not been noted. Thus a majority of teacher students' parents are not teachers themselves as they would tend to be trained at a university. Therefore there is not the phenomenon of profession transfer to be observed in teaching from parents to children. Attitudes towards teacher education have changed considerably since before 1989. There has been an increase of the number of students that choose to study at a faculty of education because of their interest in a favourite field/subject rather than because of the teaching profession as such. This is the case primarily in lower-secondary teacher education. We perceive this as a potential problem as these students might not choose to follow a~teaching carrier in their later life. Attitudes towards the teaching profession have also recently turned to negative aspects of the profession. We found that teaching is seen by teachers as well as teacher students as mentally and physically demanding profession carried out under troublesome conditions, with unsatisfactory financial remuneration and hostile reception on the part of the general public (parents). We also found positive correlation between perceived prestige of teaching and general contentedness of teachers. However feelings of indifference and even resignation on the part of the teachers were also detected.

Klíčová slova

učitel, student učitelství, učitelská profese, postoj k profesi, volba studia učitelství, prestiž profese, teacher, teacher student, teaching profession, attitude to the profession, selecting teaching study, prestige of profession

Jazyk práce: čeština

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 2. 10. 2009

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 19. 11. 2009
• Vedoucí: doc. PhDr. Jiří Dan, CSc.
• Oponent: doc. PaedDr. Petr Urbánek, doc. PaedDr. Jaroslava Vašutová, Ph.D.

Masarykova univerzita

Pedagogická fakulta

Doktorský studijní program / obor:
Pedagogika / Pedagogika