The Educational Opinions of Teachers in Training

Abstract

The Manchester scales of opinions about education were administered to groups of students attending courses in a Scottish university and college of education, with the purpose of examining educational opinions in relation to different forms of professional training and higher education. Results from this study and an earlier one made with student teachers in England are compared, and related to discussion of the differential effects of courses in both institutions on educational opinions, and of the relationships between scores on the three scales, and aspects of students' religious and political attitudes and behaviour.