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Investigation Into Work Engagement Of Preshool Teachers

Posted on:2011-11-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360305477446Subject:Pre-primary Education
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Positive Psychology has become an important force in contemporary psychology since its inception. Positive Psychology emphasis on the psychological life of the positive factors, such as happiness of oneself, virtue, strength, etc. In this context the work of engagement is made work. Engagement of pre-school teachers is a relatively stable psychological and behavioral characteristic. In the work its performances, work focused, work innovation, aggressive, persist activity, love jobs and work happily, teaching responsibility.In this study, on the basis of the analysis literature of domestics and international engagement of the work, classify work engagement of the concepts, theories, defined the concept of work engagements. Reference previous questionnaire of work engagement of pre-school teachers and put out open-ended questionnaire. To pre-school teachers, child care teacher experts, pre-professional preparation of graduate students on the basis of interviews with child care teacher engagement self-assessment questionnaire. On the basis of interviews with pre-school teachers, pre-school education experts, graduate students of pre-school education, compile work engagement self-assessment questionnaire of preschool teachers. However, work engagement is a positive construct, so it is easy to get.So I prepared questionnaire of other teacher assesses to support the self-assessment questionnaire of pre-school teacher engagements. The self-assessment questionnaire of pre-school teacher engagement, its overall internal consistency coefficient is 0.9083. Questionnaire of other teacher assesses pre-school teacher engagements internal consistency coefficient of 0.941. All are above the acceptable level of 0.5. Furthermore, the self-assessment questionnaire and questionnaire of other teacher assesses preschool teacher engagement is medium-related, the correlation coefficient is 0.635, it shows that self-assessment questionnaire have a high reliability and validity.In this study, according to the level of economic development in Henan Province, the object of survey stratified random sampling. Select Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Zhoukou, Luoyang, Xinxiang of Henan Province, and Huizhou of Guangdong 600 pre-school teachers to assess themselves. Corresponding to the self-assessment questionnaire, selected 300 preschool teachers to assess self-assessment.Use of statistical software SPSS 16.0, we research the date through the Analysis of variance, Correlation analysis, regression analysis; study the status of preschool teachers engagement.The result shows that:the whole level of pre-school teacher engagement need to be further improved. Different wages, school size, educational background, marriage, different work experience, child care teacher engagement were significantly different. Different positions, different sex work kindergarten teacher engagement was not significantly different.Based on these studies, combined with information, I'd like to make some practical suggestions to improve preschool teachers engagement:1.The government should increase financial input in during pre-school education development to improve the treatment of pre-school teachers; 2. Pre-school teachers should be given more professional development opportunities;3. Reasonable rules and regulations should be made;4. Please give pre-school teachers more humane care.5. Control kindergarten scale reasonably...
Keywords/Search Tags:Pre-school teacher, work engagement, work engagement of pre-school teacher
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