Stream-wise comparison the self-esteem level of undergraduate college teachers

Author: 
Dipankar Das and Dr. Md. Kutubuddin Halder

Teachers hold the key to success of teaching learning process which secure student’s future. Their unique skills help to mould and shape the society. The college teachers are supreme role to build a creative generation who will lead the nation to development, to highest peak of success. Their self-esteem is most important to their everyday happiness and success to teaching-learning process. But hardly few studies have been conducted in the area of college teacher’s self-esteem and their stream of teaching particularly India as well as West Bengal. This study was designed to find out the self-esteem level of stream-wise college teachers and to find out the difference of self-esteem among stream-wise undergraduate college teachers. For this purpose, stratified random sampling was used for selecting the sample comprising of 270teachers from undergraduate colleges affiliated to University of Calcutta, West Bengal. Survey type research design was used in this study. Self-esteem scale (Dhar and Dhar, 2015) and Personal Information questionnaire was used for collecting data. Data were analysed by using Percentage, Mean, SD and ANOVA. It was revealed that nearly 39 percent of social science, 35.56 percent science and 25.56 percent commerce teachers belong to high level of self-esteem. While almost 55.56 percent social science, 57.78 percent science and nearly 69 percent commerce teachers displayed normal level of self-esteem. On the other hand, 5.56 percent social science, 6.67 percent science, 5.56 percent commerce teachers exhibited low level of self-esteem. The study also found that there was no significant difference regarding self-esteem among social science, science, and commerce teachers in undergraduate college.

Paper No: 
3838