Occupational Esteem In Education

Teaching, in its most general meaning, is a process that facilitates learning. It is the application of knowledge, abilities, and aspects devised to provide necessary understanding to attain the educational needs of the person and of the society. This somehow presents the responsibility of the teachers in the realization of these primary goals of every educational institution. But this said profession does not have a universal image to people. A study by D. Hall and B. Langton (2006) presented both the positive and negative aspects of teaching. When it comes to job security, this was proven to be always in demand; that is, society will always need teachers and it is indeed a job one can have for a lifetime. But despite this, there is a little

While the Occupational Esteem, which is the general public’s regard to an occupation by virtue of the personal qualities that members are viewed to bring to their core duty, matters to the image of this profession, which most of the time perceived by others more negatively than positively, this raises the idea of this study’s purpose to know the teachers’ perception of their employment: if it really fits the Occupational Esteem or the other way around. Basically as mentioned earlier, answers from the survey indicated factors that made the public view teaching as an attractive profession or not. These factors somewhat fit Feldman’s (1996) first, second, and fifth dimensions of underemployment: (1) more education than required by the job, (2) more skills or experience than required by the job, (5) low pay, relative to either a previous job or to others with similar educational background. This study excluded Feldman’s third and fourth dimensions of underemployment (involuntary employment in a field outside of area of education and involuntary employment in part-time, temporary or intermittent work) because it is not within the scope of this

This is because of the fact that the reason one experiences happiness is subjective. Happiness as a subjective matter invites the fact of having different factors that can predict it. In Salami’s (2011) study about personality, happiness and the moderating role of emotional intelligence, he proposed that to increase one’s level of happiness is to develop self-awareness, and one of the reasons for developing self-awareness is by understanding one’s personality. Personality is introduced as one of the strongest happiness predictors. Personality is a set of generally steady and consistent traits or tendencies a person possess. It is also a natural behavioural response that individual will likely elicit in a given situation (Wilner, 2012). Paramount studies have tried to find how personality impacts on happiness. Among the personality theories established, there were a lot of research studies conducted regarding happiness and the Big Five Personality traits which proved to be universal in