Examining Teacher Trainees’ Attitude towards Teaching Profession and Teaching Subjects in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorKinyota, Mjege
dc.contributor.authorKavenuke, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-28T12:53:50Z
dc.date.available2021-04-28T12:53:50Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-30
dc.description.abstractTeacher trainees’ positive attitude on teaching is fast becoming a key instrument in teacher trainees’ motivation to teaching. Thus, it is regarded as a central policy agenda that has recently captured the minds of academics and researchers. Based on those facts, we examined the extent to which teacher trainees hold positive attitude on two dimensions—attitude towards teaching profession and teaching subjects. Additionally, we investigated whether these dimensions of attitudes are significantly related to demographic variables such as gender, GPA, whether or not they had worked before joining teacher education university programme, years of work, future work preferences and subjects of specialization. Participants for this study constituted a sample of 901 final-year teacher trainees from one of the teacher education university college in Tanzania. Findings indicated that teacher trainees’ attitude and GPA were not significantly related. Instead, a significant correlation was observed between the two dimensions of attitudes. Shockingly, findings indicated that more than 50% of teacher trainees had no preferences of working as teachers. Worse enough, the figures were similar even among science and mathematics majors who are highly demanded in the teaching career. Finally, the implications for policy and future research are put forth.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHuria Journal vol. 26(2), September,2019en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://www.ajol.info/index.php/huria/article/view/198493
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5686
dc.publisherHuria Journalen_US
dc.subjectAttitude; attitude towards teaching profession; attitude towards teaching subjects; teacher trainees; teachingen_US
dc.titleExamining Teacher Trainees’ Attitude towards Teaching Profession and Teaching Subjects in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.title.alternativeExamining Teacher Trainees’ Attitude towards Teaching Profession and Teaching Subjects in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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