Gender and Occupational Tenure as Correlates of In-Service English Language Teachers’ Interest in their Professional Development in Selected Nigerian Schools
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2015-08
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Faculty of Education, Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
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No educational system can rise above the quality of its teaching force. Teachers lacking in enthusiasm for professional development cannot be expected to perform their duties satisfactorily in the face of the myriad of challenges of and rapid changes in the characteristics of the 21st Century students. Among the factors found in literature to influence language teachers' interest in their professions are gender and occupational tenure. This study therefore investigated the relationship between each of the two selected variables (gender and occupational tenure) and the interest of the English Language teachers in Ibadan metropolis in pursuing professional development. A multistage sampling procedure was employed to get a total of one hundred and thirty-three teachers served with copies of a fifteen-item questionnaire titled Teachers' Perception of Teaching adapted from Faniran and Olatunji 2011. Frequency Counts, percentages and chi-square statistical tools were employed to analyse the data collected in testing the two null hypotheses formulated. Findings from this study have shown that though more of the male English Language teachers than their female counterparts have higher degrees, the former are less enthusiastic about professional development. Also, most of the teachers lose more interest in their jobs as they grew older in the profession.
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In-service, gender, professional development, occupational tenure,, English Language teachers occupational tenure, English Language teachers
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Olatunji, S.O. (2015). Gender and Occupational Tenure as Correlates of In-Service English Language Teachers’ Interest in their Professional Development in Selected Nigerian Schools. Journal of Capital Development in Behavioural Sciences 3(1&2), 35-47