Dimensions of teachers’ attitudes towards educational change

AbstractThis paper approaches the issue of teachers’ attitude towards the changes that are currently taking place in education. The aim of our study is to determine the relationship between teachers’ behaviour and attitude towards educational change. The theory on which this study is based regards teachers’ attitude towards educational change in correlation with personal commitment, efficiency and conservatism. The research included 400 subjects, all of them high school teachers. The results have attested that teachers’ attitude towards change is reflected in their demand for an improved teaching quality, as a result of the increasing efficiency in the educational act