A Study of Comparative Teacher-Freezing of Male and Female Higher Education Teachers

Abstract

The present study is intended to investigate the teacher-freezing of male and female higher education teachers. The objective of the study was to compare the teacher-freezing of male and female higher education teachers on each dimension of teacher-freezing and their overall freezing. A total of 160 higher education teachers with 120 male and 40 female degree college teachers were selected randomly from various higher education institutions of Varanasi region (Varanasi, Jaunpur, Ghazipur and Chandauli districts), Uttar Pradesh, for the study. Teacher-freezing Scale (TFS) developed by Dr Haseen Taj (1996) was administered on sample to assess teacher-freezing of male and female degree college teachers. Shapiro-Wilk test was applied to check the normality of the data set and CR-test was applied to find out significance of difference between mean freezing scores of the two. Findings of the study revealed that male and female higher education teachers show approximately the same level of teacher-freezing overall. Female higher education teachers were found more freeze on physical dimension of teacher-freezing in comparison to their counter part. Further, male and female higher education teachers show approximately the same level of teacher-freezing on intellectual, psychological, social and moral dimensions of teacher-freezing.