Factors Affecting Teachers' Learning Attitudes

Abstract

The teaching profession is in the focus of unprecedented level of interest due to current social, political and professional debates, nonetheless (or perhaps this is the reason why) those involved have a pessimistic professional vision. It is difficult for them to identify with the growing level of challenges which may strengthen the motivation of teacher attrition. We assume that workplace satisfaction and long-term educational plans are closely linked to the professional vision, which in turn is able to track the motivations of profession loyalty. In order to justify our hypotheses we used a self-edited (online) data collection questionnaire comprising 33 questions, which was completed in the academic year of 2015/2016 by MA students and graduated teachers of similar trainings at University of West Hungary Savaria University Centre and Eszterházy Károly College. In our study we examine the learning needs of teachers in respect of the immediate and extended professional environment based on the responses of 295 qualified teachers.