A GENDER WISE ANALYSIS ON THE ATTITUDE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TOWARDS LEARNING THROUGH TAMIL

Abstract

The main objective of the study is to find the level of primary school teachers attitude towards learning through Tamil. Also to find the difference between male and female primary school teachers attitude towards learning through Tamil. Survey method has been used for this study. The sample of the present study has been selected using stratified random sampling technique from the population. The sample consists of 268 teachers from fifty primary schools of Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi and Kaniyakumari districts. The researcher has prepared a research tool with 30 items for measuring teachers’ attitude towards learning through Tamil. The results revealed that 12.3% of primary teachers have high level of attitude towards learning through Tamil. Further, 12.2% of male primary school teachers and 12.5% of female primary school teachers have high level of attitude towards learning through Tamil. The results show that there is significant difference found between male and female primary school teachers’ attitude towards learning through Tamil. Further it is observed that the male teachers are better than the female teachers in their attitude towards learning through Tamil.