The Social Status of Teacher from the Point of View of High School Teachers in the Capital Governate of the State of Kuwait

Alfidalh, Khalid

doi:10.21608/edusohag.2019.55473

The Social Status of Teacher from the Point of View of High School Teachers in the Capital Governate of the State of Kuwait

Document Type : Original Article

Author

khalid alfidalh

Assistant Professor Department of Educational Assets and Management College of Basic Education / State of Kuwait

10.21608/edusohag.2019.55473

Abstract

The current study aims to identify the reality of the social status of the teacher from the point of view of high school teachers in the capital governate of the state of Kuwait, and to specify the statistically significant differences in sample viewpoints toward the social status of teacher in terms of sex, citizenship, and specialization. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the descriptive analytical approach through applying a questionnaire on a random sample of (226) high school teachers.
The most important results are that the social status of teacher is high in the social, low in the economic and importance and social appreciation parts, and moderate in the total degree. In addition, the study indicated that there are statistically significant differences from sample view points toward the economic and importance and social appreciation parts and in the total degree according to sex variable in favour of female, and statistically significant differences in all parts and total degree according to citizenship variable in favour of Kuwaiti teachers. Furthermore, there are no statistically significant differences from the sample viewpoint toward all parts and the total degree of the social status of teacher according to specialization variable.

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