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PERCEPTION OF TEACHING STATUS AND THEIR JOB SATISFACTION
ABSTRACT
In the
history of human development education has been the national bedrock in
development. This was due to the extent of respects accorded to it but
nowadays, it is quite sad and pitiable that such reputation is long gone simply
because it is found to be reserved for the downtrodden; and mediocrity.
Teachers who were beneficiaries in this educational sector turned out to be the
benchmark due to the rate his counterpart erode his aspiration. Now, the study
sought to determine the public perception of teachers’ status and their job
satisfaction in Udi local Government of Enugu state. To achieve this aim of the
study, objective among others is to find (if it is possible), the status of
teachers in Nigeria and so to confirm or repute the assertion that the teachers
occupy a low status in the country. Data for the study was collected using
questionnaire and interview while result and discussion were through percentage
and table based on the views of 80 randomly selected respondents were mostly
teachers and students who were literates. So most teachers sees teaching as a
spring bound to pursue a higher degree and that employment is easy in its
profession. Therefore, it is recommended among others that no graduate who did
not study education should be allowed to teach, to maintain the professional ethics of teaching
career. And the condition for admission into educational programmes should be
as high as any other faculty in the university.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.6 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
In the
history of human development, education has been the bedrock of any nations
development. In the traditional African society, it was through the education
of the child by its parents, community, and peer group that the culture and
norm of that society were transmitted to its younger generations and therefore
preserved.
In our
complex modern society, the rule of education cannot be overemphasized. It
ranged from that of self realization, the development of human relationship, of
self and national economic efficiency, of the development of national economic
efficiency, of the development of national Economic consciousness, of the
development of effective citizenship and civil responsibility of establishing
and maintaining national unity, of social and political progress, and of the
development of scientific and technological awareness.
For the
effective realization of the these educational goal, it is obviously pertinent
to look at the teacher whose responsibility is to impact the required knowledge
his very lowly beginning, his public image and the effects of these on the
teaching profession. About the early 1920s, the teacher was an important
person, especially in the rural parts of the country.
He not only
understand the white man’s language and behaviour, but could speak it and
behave alike.
All letters
of importance were written by and read it to the owners by him. His mode of
dressing and standard of living were far above what ordinarily obtained in the
villages.
During this
period, the teaching profession had quite a lot of attraction and now entrants
abounded. However as times went on, people shifted emphasis from the teaching
live to advancing into secondary and grammer school. It was found out that the
salary structure of teachers and that of graduate of grammer schools were quite
wide.
The clerks
in the education departments who kept records of work of teachers received
liberal salaries with pension, while the teachers received appallingly low
salaries.
With the
introduction of the university education, the teacher found the interiority of
his training to the secondary school education and for that he struggled for
his G.C.E (General Certificate in Education) which will enable him quality for
admission into the university.
As time went
on, the image of the teacher continued
going down the rungs of the ladder. The state of affairs was intensified in the
1960’s because, the Nigerian society no longer sustained the status she
accorded the teacher who he was the only educated man in the community. As
secondary school graduates receiving higher salaries than the teacher, the status of the latter
suffered because the Nigerian society mistakenly equated status with wealth.
To worsen
his situation, the teacher bore the brunt of what ever economic hardship
plagued the nation in the past, in the form of delayed salaries, cuts in
salaries and fringe benefits, and or complete withdrawal of whatever fringe
benefits he may have been enjoying.
However,
recently at the onset of oil boom and Nigerian economic recession, more
attractive jobs were no longer easily available. Teaching came to the rescue as
people jump to other jobs of their choice whenever the opportunity is
available.
1.7 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Most teachers
were once at a time as remarkable people in the society. Tafewa Balewa was a
Nigerian, He started a career in teaching profession and later, he joined
politic and from there became Nigeria’s prime minister. Alhaji Shehu shagari,
Late Michael Adekunle Ajaisin, Late Samuel Ladoke Akintola to mention but a
few, started as teachers and they are very great in the society.
But those
were in the olden days, when teachers were gods. They were seen as people sent
by God to take ignorance away from land in substitute for fortunes and good
tidings of life.
Teachers in
the olden days were next to kings but now his counterpart in modern times is
easily recognize when cornered. He moves about in tattered clothes. His shoes
are worn-out. He is so lean and dry that his trouser occasionally drops from
his buttocks. When he puts on a tie, there is always a wide gap between his
neck and the collar of his shirt. He is always hungry and hence always angry.
Out of anger at times, he beats a student and the next day, the parent of the
child comes to school to harass him.
He dares not
introduce himself before important people as teachers if he wants recognition,
rather, he prefers a more polished phrase-Education consultant. Because his
salary is too meager to him for the month, he resorts to extorting money from
the students using one excuse or the other.
Some of the
students even call him by various appellations and he answers joyfully. Nobody
recognizes him who he attends a community function. He finds it difficult to get
a lady of his choice because no girl wants a teacher for a date. He dares not
attend a political meeting if his pocket is not fat enough, else he will not be
recognized.
Now, every
students want to be taught by him, but no student wants to be in his profession.
Every parent needs him to teach his son or daughter but no parents want his son
or daughter to teach to earn a living. The modern day teachers plight is
pitiable, can the present status of the teaching profession in Nigeria change
for the better again?
1.8 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
One can
assume that the spate of criticism against educational endeavour and its
products in Nigeria is motivated by a desire for improvement. So, the
assumption goes on, there is an almost country wide desire to make education in
the country more effective since an aspect of a worker’s life that affects his
efficiency and effectiveness in his status, it is necessary to pay attention to
the status of workers.
The purpose
of this study is to find out (if it is possible), the status of teachers in
Nigeria and so to confirm or repute the assertion that teachers in Nigeria
occupy low status in the country. Depending upon the findings, the study will
provide suggestion as to how status of teachers could be raised or maintained
in order to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of teachers in UDI Local
Government Area of Enugu State.
1.9 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
It is hoped
that this study will help the government knowing exactly those reasons
responsible for dissatisfaction among teachers and find out possible ways of
rectifying them. This work will as well open up the areas of weaknesses on the
part of the teachers for them to make amendments. It will well bring out the
public perception of teachers and job satisfaction. Most importantly, the
society in general will benefit in terms of improved quality of education since
the government will work hard towards improving on what is obtainable now.
This will as
well help in the improvement of a sound and good oriented education especially
at the lower level since every other thing is built on that.
1.10LIMITATION
OF THE STUDY
The research
work – public perception of teachers status and their job satisfaction case
study of Udi Local Government Area is supposed to cover all the two in the
local government are, but due to lack of time and finance, four towns were
randomly selected for the study.
The research
led the researcher to interview the principals of schools in the chosen towns.
Also some people and chiefs of the town selected we also interviewed but the
problem of non-challant attitude shown by some of these group of people who saw
the research question posted to them by the researcher as an avenue of getting
information from them which might incriminate them.
So, data
collection were hindered due to some civil servants perceived such questions on
questionnaires as personal disturbance.
Also the
researcher made use of the library work as a result of financial constrain. The
research could not lay hands on some of the books that could have been very
useful.
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