Teaching as a profession: Viewpoint of the Bangladeshi secondary school teachers

Teachers play an important role in fostering the intellectual and social development of children during their formative years. The education that students acquire is key to determining the future of those students. Secondary school teachers help students investigate more deeply into subjects introduced in primary school and expose them to more information about the world. Secondary school teachers specialize in a specific subject, they also may teach subjects that are career oriented. Additional responsibilities of secondary school Social Science teachers may include career guidance and job placement, as well as following up with students after graduation. Social Science teachers are working in a society loaded with social, environmental and economic problems. So it is very important to know whether Social Science teachers are happy or not in their profession; is they are facing any problem to do their real job; are they making effective citizen for the community and the world. The purpose of this study was to find out the key aspects of Social Science teachers' profession in Bangladesh and the specialty of teaching Social Science at secondary schools. Understanding the importance of Social Science teachers' perception for their profession the study tried to investigate their perception about the profession.

Author: MD Tariqul Islam

Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing

Publication Date: Sep 15, 2016

Number of Pages: 76 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 3954894432

ISBN-13: 9783954894437