Attitude of Prospective Teachers towards Teaching Profession in relation to Mental Health

Dr. Balwinder Kaur

Volume : VI, Issue : I, January - 2016

Attitude of Prospective Teachers towards Teaching Profession in relation to Mental Health

Dr. Balwinder Kaur

Abstract :

Teaching is the profession that is shaping the education and therefore moulding the skills of our future workforce and laying the foundation for good citizenship and full participation in community and civic life. So the main objective of the paper is to study the mental health and attitude of social science and science prospective teachers towards teaching profession, to compare significant differences in mean score of attitude of social science and science prospective teachers towards teaching profession at different levels of mental health (MHh, MHa, MHl). To achieve these objectives, the sample of 200 student teachers was taken from all educational colleges affiliated to Punjab University Chandigarh. Descriptive analysis like mean, median, mode and t–values are calculated to see the mean differences in the attitude of social science and science prospective teachers towards teaching profession at different levels of mental health. Therefore this study addresses the importance of having the knowledge of prospective teacher’s mental health and attitude towards teaching profession. This study is helpful to the administrators and academic staff to understand that selection of teaching subjects plays an important role in developing the attitude of prospective teachers