Abstract

• The purpose of this study is to find out the teachers’ attitudes towards the teaching of social studies at the primary level. This focused on the teachers who had the experience of teaching social studies at the primary level. The teachers were from (18) basic middle schools and (24) basic primary schools from randomly selected three townships in two districts of Yangon Region and Bago District. As the research instrument, the teachers’ attitudes questionnaire developed by Gulec and Alkis (2009) and Omolara and Adebukola (2015) were based and modified to use in this study. And quantitative research was used to find out the teachers’ attitudes towards the teaching of social studies. There were (50) items with Five-Point Likert-Scale in the questionnaire. A total of (375) teachers participated in this study. The questionnaire included five dimensions, namely, the content of social studies, teaching and learning of social studies, the contribution of social studies, the influence of social studies and the issues which may encounter when teaching social studies. According to the findings, (96%) of the social studies teachers were keen to use the knowledge they have acquired in the course in real life situation and were interested in teaching social studies. (95%) of the teachers admitted that their attitudes towards the course were affected by the teaching methods. According to the findings, many teachers recognized that social studies plays the important role to become a member of the community. According to the findings, the social studies teachers were enthusiastic in teaching social studies. And (97%) of the teachers wanted to attend academic conference, seminars and workshop in order to update their academic knowledge. (95%) of the teachers were proud of teaching social studies. However, many teachers revealed that there were no enough teaching and learning materials.