A Comparative Study of English and Math Teachers’ Perfectionism: Leadership and Empowerment

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research

مقاله 9، دوره 4، شماره 13، شهریور 2016، صفحه 109-128   

نوع مقاله: Research Papers

نویسندگان

Hamed Ghaemi^{* 1}؛ Mohammad Javad Sadeghi Fard²

¹Department of English, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran

²Department of Mathematics, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran

چکیده

Abstract The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between three main characteristics of teachers; namely, perfectionism, leadership and empowerment, amongst Iranian English and math teachers. To do so, two groups of teachers were selected to participate in this study. One consisted of 177 math teachers and the other comprised 200 English teachers. All were teaching in Khorasan Razavi province, both in high schools and institutes. In order to collect the necessary data, three instruments (i.e. the Almost Perfect Scale–revised Questionnaire, School Participant Empowerment Questionnaire, and Leadership Practice Inventory) were employed. Having analyzed the data, the researchers found that the correlation among all the three variables were statistically significant for both math and English teachers. However, there was a statistically significant difference between math and English teachers regarding their leadership and empowerment, while no statistically significant difference was found between math and English teachers concerning their perfectionism.

کلیدواژه‌ها

perfectionism؛ leadership؛ Empowerment؛ math teachers؛ English teachers