Research On Teachers' View Of Human Nature, Teacher Role, And Student Development

In this study, questionnaires were group administered to 690 teachers of primary school, middle school and professional middle school to explore the characteristics of teachers' view of human nature, teacher role, student development and their relations. Results indicated that teachers' active view of human nature was an effective predicted variable of their view of teacher role and student development. In this study, teachers' view of human nature was active, so their view of teacher role and student development was active. Meanwhile, teachers' view of teacher role and student development was relatively stable, and influenced mutually. With the vary of teaching history and teacher rank, teachers' view of teacher role and student development did not vary, and this stability was embodied on teachers who's teaching history was five year and more. The study reported that teachers' contemporary view of teacher role effectively influenced on their view of student development. Besides, there was two problems deserved attention: schoolmasters' view of human nature was passive; the view of teacher role and student development on professional middle school teachers was passive.