Teachers' Social Attitudes and Their Attitudes to Education
The study examined relations between teachers' social attitudes and their attitudes to education. Included in the sample were 100 female and 130 male teachers from Australian secondary schools. Typically, the findings show that teachers with traditional attitudes to education also express conservative social attitudes. If changing teachers' attitudes to education is considered as an essential component of school innovation programs, then the results suggest that the success of those programs may be related to how meaningfully teachers' social attitudes are also influenced.