Personality Traits of Minority Arab Teachers in the Arab Educational System in Israel

Autor/inn/en	Abu Hussain, Jamal; Abu Hussain, Nadia
Titel	Personality Traits of Minority Arab Teachers in the Arab Educational System in Israel
Quelle	In: International Journal of Higher Education, 6 (2017) 3, S.29-39 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1927-6044
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Minority Group Teachers; Arabs; Correlation; Foreign Countries; Knowledge Base for Teaching; Cognitive Style; Teacher Behavior; Social Change; Questionnaires; Teacher Attitudes; Statistical Analysis; Kindergarten; Elementary School Teachers; Preschool Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Arab; Araber; Korrelation; Ausland; Teaching theory; Theory of teaching; Unterrichtstheorie; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Teacher behaviour; Lehrerverhalten; Sozialer Wandel; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	The present research examined the personality traits prevalent among Arab teachers as a minority in the Arab educational system in Israel. Personality traits has much significance in the prediction of human behavior in various situations. Personality traits affect a person's behavior. Usually personality traits do not change, and they are reflected in a person's behavior in various situations. Teaching, like any other profession, requires specific traits, skills and personal abilities, a basis of extensive, professional knowledge and the appropriate perceptions and thinking. Teachers' personality traits play an important role in their work. There are correlations between people's personality traits and their behavior in various situations. Thinking styles constitute a central aspect of one's personality, whereas other researchers claim that personality traits and thinking styles overlap somewhat, but that each of them provides a unique contribution, with clear structures characterizing them. Personality traits explain a high percentage of the diversity in thinking styles and explain the variations in thinking styles in higher percentages. Personality traits among Arab teachers as members of a national minority in Israel have not attained research attention up to now, despite this society undergoing rapid processes of change in social, economic, political, cultural and family spheres. In light of this, it is vitally important to study the subject and examine what personality traits are prevalent among Arab teachers as a minority in the Arab educational system in Israel. 185 teachers from the Arab minority participated in this research. The teachers responded to a questionnaire on personality traits, where research questions made use of theoretical statistics with the statistical analysis program SPSS. The principle research findings revealed that the personality traits prevalent among Arab teachers in the Arab educational system in Israel are: extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness; despite this, traits of openness and emotional stability were less prevalent among them. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01