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Optymizm nauczycielek edukacji wczesnoszkolnej
Optimism of Early Childhood Education Teachers

Author(s): Ewa SOSNOWSKA-BIELICZ
Subject(s): School education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: primary education teacher; optimism; nauczyciel edukacji wczesnoszkolnej; optymizm

Summary/Abstract: The teacher of early school education is a unique teacher, he becomes a kind of prototype, on whichwe build our imagination about all the teachers we meet on our way to school. That is why it isimportant that it is a pattern full of good qualities: friendly, smiling, wise, optimistic.The presented text focuses on an attempt to diagnose the level of optimism of early childhoodeducation teachers, on a small group of respondents (30 teachers) using two SWLS and LOT-Rtools. The first one determines the level of overall satisfaction with life and the second one reduces the level of dispositional optimism, understood as a tendency to positive perception of theworld and its own future. The results obtained confirm other researches addressing this issue, itturns out that about half of the teachers have a high level of dispositional optimism. Optimism isa relatively permanent feature of personality, it is an important motivator for action that increasesresistance to stress and facilitates quick decision-making in a difficult situation for an individual.Such a teacher, good and fast coping in stressful situations, which at work with a small child isa lot, they will get satisfaction from their professional role and at the same time meet the expectations set by society.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 419-428
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish