A STUDY OF THE AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF THE PRIMARY TEACHERS TOWARDS THE NEW PRIMARY MORALS AND CIVICS CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION
Abstract
- The aim of the study is to investigate the level of awareness and attitude of the primary teachers towards the new morals and civics curriculum implementation. This focused on Grade One teachers from East District of Yangon Region who were selected using simple random sampling method. Descriptive survey method and quantitative approach were used in this study. As the research instrument, the Trainee Teacher Attitude Questionnaire developed by The University of Plymouth (2007) and Questionnaire on Consultation of Morals and National Education Curriculum developed by Tovmasyan and Marcie Taylor Thoma (2008) were based and developed to use in this study. There are (71) total items of 5-Likert scales and (12) open-ended questions. Total of (329) Grade One teachers participated in this study. According to this study, the results point out that the awareness and attitude of the Grade One primary teachers the (89.47%) of school group is at the moderate level and (10.53%) of school group is at the high level in implementing the new primary morals and civics curriculum. The results also point out that the level of implementation of Grade One primary teachers from school group towards new primary morals and civics subject is (42.10%). The implementation done by the private school group and the monastic school group are higher than that of other school groups. According to the subscales, the mean score of assessment session is lower than the mean score of awareness and attitude level and implementation level. These results also show that the awareness and attitude of the Grade One teachers impact on their daily teaching.
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Year
- 2020
Author
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Naw Eh Wah
Subject
- Methodology
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)