JGI, BANGALORE

To understand change in attitude towards

teachers
Research Report
Under Guidance of Mr. Hemanth Kumar

Submitted by
Yash Poddar
Kishore Kumar Singh
D. Rajasekhar Reddy

Acknowledgement
I would like to express my gratitude to several people who have
helped make this research report possible. I am grateful to Mr.
Hemanth Kumar for his constant encouragement and guidance. This
wouldnt have been possible without his regular academic guidance
and focus. His expertise in research techniques and statistical
analysis was essential in helping me focus my thoughts.
Id like to take this opportunity to thank my classmates and friends,
discussion with whom, were fruitful in analyzing and crafting a
well-structured dissertation. They were always encouraging and
supportive. Their valuable inputs have, no doubt, enriched the level
of the research.
Lastly, I would extend my special thanks to all my respondents who
took out time to fill my survey and forwarded the same to several
relevant respondents.

Declaration
This is to certify that Dissertation titled To understand change in
attitude towards teachers which is submitted by me in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the award of diploma PGDBM-B
from JGI EDII comprises only of my original work and due
acknowledgement has been made in the text to all other material
used.
This work was done under the guidance of Mr. Hemanth Kumar at
JGI Knowledge Campus, Bangalore in 2015-17.

Executive Summary
This study investigated how change in attitude towards teachers as
compared to a decade before. It also examined the relationships
between students and teachers which could affect the research
survey. In total, 27 surveys were collected from several students
from different colleges, different geographical location and from
different departments of education. The survey measured how
respect towards teachers is affected by different by different factors
and additional demographic information.
Statistics were computed using the Qualtrics program to analyze the
data. This study yielded many findings. Research gave deeper
insights into the teachers behavior, types of factors, frequency of
interaction between student and teachers and its effect on it,
dependence of age, gender, location and education level. The few
indicated a positive relationship between students and teachers as
well as the external environments which includes peers, parents and
teachers.

Table of contents
Acknowledgement....................................................................2
Declaration..............................................................................3
Executive Summary..................................................................4
Introduction.............................................................................6
Objectives of the study.............................................................7
Literature Review.....................................................................8
Research Questions................................................................10
Research Design....................................................................10
Sample....................................................................................11
Demographics......................................................................11
Questionnaire.........................................................................12
Limitations of the study..........................................................17
Scope of the Study..................................................................17
Data Analysis.........................................................................18
Report Findings.....................................................................36
Conclusions............................................................................38
Suggestions............................................................................39
Bibliography..........................................................................40

Introduction
This section lays the background regarding the research area. It also
lays emphasis on the importance of the field and its implications in
the near future. This section entails a background indicating the
importance of internal and external affecting the research.
First of all what does respect mean?
1. Showing consideration for other people and their property.
2. Caring for ourselves, family, community, and school.
3. Appreciating and accepting individual differences.
4. Treating others the way that you would want to be treated.
How can you show respect to your teachers?
1. Use kind words and good manners.
2. Listen to what teachers have to say.
3. Follow the rules.
4. Appreciate differences among people.
5. Help others.
Education plays a critical role in contributing to counteracting
discrimination and diffusing a culture of respect for all throughout
society. As education professionals, they have a critical role to play in
the transformation process in and through education: equipping
learners to embrace their fear of differences, increase compassion
and empathy for others, and build multiple perspectives, while
heightening their appreciation of every person in the world in which
we live. Children and young people also have much to share with

education professionals, such as their ideas and experiences on how

to stop discrimination and promote mutual respect.
This Research report seeks to provide current situations on the
teachers status. It also focuses on how a teachers respect is
influenced by the way of teaching or how much he or she put efforts
in teaching students.

Objectives of the study

* To understand the change in behaviour towards teachers respect.
* To understand the various environment factors that have lead to
change as compared a decade ago.
* To understand how relationship between student and teachers affect
the change in attitude among society.
* To understand the reasons that led to change in attitude towards
teachers.

Literature Review
A concern to improve the status of teachers and the teaching
profession has been inherent in government policy initiatives since
1997, when it was given prominence in a White Paper (DfEE, 1997)
and subsequent documents such as Teachers meeting the challenge of
change (DfEE, 1998a). Underpinning the range of initiatives that
ensued was the desire to improve standards in teaching and raise the
status of teachers.
The Faculty of Education at Cambridge University, in association
with the Centre for Mass Communication Research at Leicester
University was commissioned by the Department for Education and
Skills (DfES) in 2002 to embark on a four year study of the status of
teachers and the teaching profession in England. The projects aims
are threefold. They are:
1. to establish a baseline and monitor changes in perceptions of the
status of teachers and their profession, among teachers, associated
groups and the general public, between 2003 and 2006
2. To understand the factors that might influence perceptions of
status and teachers attitudes
3. To identify how perceptions of teacher status can be improved.

Defining Status
We recognise the complexity of the concept of status. The New
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary offers the following generic
definition:

'Position or standing in society; rank, profession; relative importance'

and 'Condition or position of a thing esp. with regard to importance'
This project has adopted Hoyles (2001) three-part definition of
occupational status in the development and interpretation of the
surveys conducted in this study. Hoyle distinguishes between:
Occupational Prestige
The public perception of the relative position
of an occupation in a hierarchy of occupations
Occupational Status
the category to which knowledgeable groups
allocate a particular occupation, where knowledgeable groups
include e.g. civil servants, politicians, social scientists, educationists
and, for the purpose of this study, teachers themselves. Occupational
Esteem - the regard in which an occupation is held by the general
public by virtue of the personal qualities that members are perceived
to bring to their core tasks e.g. their care, competence and dedication.

Occupational Esteem
The regard in which an occupation is held by
the general public by virtue of the personal qualities that members
are perceived to bring to their core tasks e.g. their care, competence
and dedication.

Research Questions
1. Is there is an increase in immoral activity committed by
teachers?
2. Do you talk to teachers for personal advice?
3.

Do teachers have chosen teaching profession only because of

earning money?

Research Design
The research conducted is descriptive and is based on the data
Collected through questionnaires. A descriptive research portrays
Accurately the characteristics of a particular individual, situation or
a group. So descriptive design help our research to quantify the
current situation.
Here we want to find out the students behaviour towards teachers
and the present situation. Descriptive research design helps us to
know the characteristics of an individual wherein students are the
individual in our research.

Sample
Sample size-30
Sample unit- Students
Sample method- Convenient Sampling
As research is to understand the change in level of respect towards
teachers. Student of age group 18-24 were chosen for the research.
Sample size is 26 in which the average age is 22.Out of 26 sample
size 34.62% are females and 65.38% are males. Major respondents
are from tier 1 and tier2 cities and rest of them from tier 3.All of the
samples have completed their basic education which is PUC.

Demographics
The demographic section contains questions about age, sex, highest
education, location, year of completion.

Questionnaire
Survey to understand change in attitude towards teacher
Demographic data
Q1. Age- ____
Q2. Sex

Female (1)
Male (2)

Q3. Location- ________________

Q4. Highest education- _________

Q5. Year of completion-_________

Q6. Have you ever taught?

Yes (1)
No (2)

There are two factors that would generally influence the research.
1. Internal environment
2. External environment

Q7. Do you connect to your teacher on a personal level?

No, I have conversation with teachers in class hours only. (1)

No, I dont talk to teachers on any personal matters. (2)
Yes, I have friendly relations with my teachers (3)

Q8. Do you talk to teachers for personal advice?

Yes (1)
No (2)

Q9. If yes, how often?

Daily (1)
Once a week (2)
Monthly (3)
less frequently (4)

Q10. In course of your academics did you come across any teacher
committing immoral activity (sexual harassment, corporal
punishment etc)?

 Yes (1)
No (2)

Q11. Do your teachers show gender bias?

yes (1)
no (2)

Q12. On a scale of 1-5 where 5 is maximum and 1 is minimum, do

teachers teach only for making money?

1 (1)
2 (2)
3 (3)
4 (4)
5 (5)

Q13. On a scale of 1-5 where 5 is maximum and 1 minimum, how

much effort teacher is putting in teaching?

1 (1)
2 (2)
3 (3)
4 (4)
5 (5)

Q14. How is your classmates behavior/attitude towards teachers?

They only respect those teachers who teach properly. (1)

They respect all the teachers. (2)
They respect those teachers who built friendly relations with them.
(3)
No, they dont respect anyone of the teachers. (4)

Q15. How it affects you?

It changes my behavior towards teachers completely. (1)

No, it doesn't change my behavior towards teachers. (2)
Yes, it changes my behavior towards teacher a bit. (3)
Others (4) ____________________

Q16. Do your parents have personal contacts with any of your

teachers?

yes (1)
No (2)

Q17. What is the level of respect given by your parents towards your
teachers?

They do consider teachers as integral part of family (1)

They dont talk to teachers at all. (2)

 They talk to teachers only related to my academic performance. (3)

Talk to teachers related to my academic performance as well as
personal matters. (4)

Q18. How your parents attitude towards your teacher affects you?

In motivating, having a positive review towards teacher. (1)

Lead towards degrading the once interest. (2)
Adding indirectly or directly to peers pressure. (3)
Others (4)

Q19. Any other factors which you think have impacted the students
perception of teachers in the society?

Limitations of the study

The first limitation that could potentially affect the results of the study
is the population that was sampled. The population consisted entirely
of students. These results do not include people who are not part of
education system.
The other limitation was majority of responses were from the age
group 18 24 which are students.
The final limitation was the significant lack of academic literature on
the topic of the change in the respect given by the society towards
teachers as they would a decade ago.

Scope of the Study

The scope of the study is to find out the different factors which
influence the research and draw inferences from it about how it
changes the status of teachers among the society. There are several
level of influencers who would affect the research.
1. Individual
2. Peers
3. Teachers
4. Parents

Data Analysis
#

Sex

Answer

Female

Bar

Response

34.62

Male

17

65.38

Total

26

100.00

Location

Highest education
Text Entry
Bangalore

Kochi

Bangalore

Bangalore

Mathura

Kanpur

Bangalore

Aligarh

India

Chandigarh

Year of completion.
Text Entry
MBA

B.tech

Graduation

Graduation

12

12

Mba

B.com

Bsc.

High school

Have you ever taught?

Text Entry
2016

2016

2015

2015

2014

2013

2015

2016

2015

12

Do you connect to your teacher on a personal level?

Answer

Bar

Response

Yes

12

44.44%

No

15

55.56%

Total

27

100.00%

Do you talk to teachers for personal advice?

#

Answer

Bar

Response

Yes

29.63%

No

19

70.37%

Total

27

100.00%

Answer

Bar

Respon
se

1 No, i have conversation with

teachers in class hours only.

29.63
%

2 No, i dont talk to teachers on any

personal matters.

29.63
%

11

40.74
%

27

100.00
%

3 Yes, i have friendly relations with

my teachers
Total

If yes, How often?

#

Answer

Bar

Response

Daily

11.11%

Once a week

5.56%

Monthly

11.11%

less frequently

13

72.22%

Total

18

100.00%

In course of your academics did you come across any teacher

committing immoral activity (sexual harassment, corporal
punishment etc)?

Do your teacher show gender bias?

Answer

Bar

Response

Yes

11.11%

No

24

88.89%

Total

27

100.00%

On a scale of 1-5 where 5 is maximum and 1 is minimum, do

teachers teach only for making money?

Answer

Bar

Response

Yes

25.93%

No

20

74.07%

Total

27

100.00%

On a scale of 1-5 where 5 is maximum and 1 minimum, How much

effort teacher is putting in teaching?

Answer

Bar

Response

7.41%

7.41%

16

59.26%

14.81%

11.11%

27

100.00%

Total

How is your classmates behaviour/attitude towards teachers?

Answer

Bar

Response

3.70%

7.41%

10

37.04%

12

44.44%

7.41%

27

100.00%

Total

How it affects you?

Answer

1 They only respect those teachers

who teach properly.

Bar

Respon
se

10

37.04
%

25.93
%

3 They respect those teachers who

built friendly relations with them.

10

37.04
%

4 No, they dont respect anyone of

the teachers.

0.00%

27

100.00
%

2 They respect all the teachers.

Total

Do your parents have personal contacts with any of your teachers?

Answer

1 It changes my behavior towards

teachers completely.

Bar

Respon
se

18.52
%

17

62.96
%

3 Yes, it changes my behavior

towards teacher a bit.

14.81
%

4 Others

3.70%

27

100.00
%

2 No, it doesn't change my behavior

towards teachers.

Total

What is the level of respect given by your parents towards your

teachers?

Answer

Bar

Response

Yes

25.93%

No

20

74.07%

Total

27

100.00%

How your parents attitude towards your teacher affects you?

Answer

Bar

Respon
se

1 They do consider teachers as

integral part of family

3.70%

2 They dont talk to teachers at all.

18.52
%

3 They talk to teachers only related

to my academic performance.

15

55.56
%

4 Talk to teachers related to my

academic performance as well as
personal matters.

22.22
%

27

100.00
%

Total

Any other factors which you think have impacted the students's
Text Entry
perception of teachers in the society?
Their position in college and industrial experience

The teacher's are becoming more like business personals engaged in producing toppe
and rankers rather than educating without any bias behaviour or discrimination.
Students of this generation do not have much respect for their teachers. It maybe
because sometimes they expect too much from a teacher and also there are teachers
who do not take their work seriously and are not very helpful.

Answer

1 In motivating, having a positive

review towards teacher.

Bar

Respon
se

17

62.96
%

2 Lead towards degrading the once

interest.

7.41%

3 Adding indirectly or directly to peer

pressure.

11.11
%

4 Others

18.52
%

27

100.00
%

Total

Report Findings
From the above survey out of 26 sample size there are like 17 male
and 9 female. In the finding students perspective is taken into
consideration in context.

From the finding we saw majority share of sample states that

they have a friendly relationship with the teachers which rounds
to 40.74% , and 29% thinks they have no interest in sharing the
personal relationship with the teacher and 29.63% only interact
while in the class hours.
And also the majority shares of students are reluctant to share
their personal advice seeking interest.
Teachers are still receiving the same respect as they used to
back decade ago.
Helped to us get a clear idea about the teacher reputation in
current generation both in the eyes of students and parents.
Teachers are still known to be guru for mentoring the students
future as known from ancient times.
Students are now more serious and clear about their career
oriented decisions with the help from teachers guidance.

 To match up this competitive market for excellence there has

been an up-gradation in style and methods of teaching (e.g. elearning methods), more practical and skilled oriented steps are
undertaken.

When asked in the questionnaire about Any other factors

which you think have impacted the students perception of
teachers in the society we got two reviews.

The teacher's are becoming more like business personals

engaged in producing toppers and rankers rather than
educating without any bias behaviour or discrimination.

Students of this generation do not have much respect for their

teachers. It maybe because sometimes they expect too much from
a teacher and also there are teachers who do not take their work
seriously and are not very helpful.

Conclusions
After taking into the consideration of 26 sample size for survey about
the question do teachers command the same respect as they would a
decade ago a decade ago ,we conclude that there has not been any
much changes in the role of teachers in students mentoring, only
methods and secondary objects are been restructured and altered so
as to suit the current market demand for kind of educated people so
as keep the economy of one moving forward, though in majority of
cases its been come into noticed that now quality of education has
become secondary factor over helping the students get good grades
and rather than improving the quality of its knowledge.

Suggestions
Even though the current situation is appropriate up to great extend
but following things to taken under consideration in order to get back
the same respect and devotion towards teachers dated back to ancient
times:

Key focus on quality of education.

Avoid impartial attention on grade oriented mind set.
Keep innovating a updating to meet students expectations
and interest.

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