Exploration of Impact of Age on Professional Stress and Allied Psychopedagogical Status of Female Engineering Educators in India
Abstract
Irrespective of discipline and trade-boundaries, pedagogy of Engineering-Education demands specialty in most of the cases. Teachers’ style of teaching [rather to assist in the process of learning] accords influence of sequels of factors and variables some of which may be clubbed under ‘psychopedagogical attributes’. Among the many other factors, these include professional-interest, job-satisfaction, collectivism and professionalstress. The present study attempts to explore the level and interrelationship of these psychopedagogical attributes as apparent among the female teachers of engineering colleges and universities, teaching through Distance Education, from selected states of eastern-India. Attempt was also made to explore the impact of age of the female teachers over these psychoeducational-attributes. Findings of the study reveal that age of the respondents possesses significant impact over the major psychopedagogical attributes viz., professional-i nterest, job-satisfaction, collectivism and professional-stress.
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Published by Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.