Teacher Induction for Professional Development:Females' Perspectives

Abstract

This research entitled "Teacher Induction for Professional Development: Females' Perspectives" was an attempt to explore the female teachers' perspectives about induction for their professional development. It also aimed to find out the current practices of teacher induction in the Nepalese context. In order to unlock the real story of professional journey, I adopted narrative inquiry as the research design. The study was entirely based on primary sources of data. Six teachers (sample) were selected through purposive non-random sampling strategy. The data was carried out through semi-structured interview and informal conservation. The collected data were first viewed holistically and then analyzed thematically. The finding indicated that induction helps to provide quality education, upgrade professional knowledge, make familiar the female teachers with new environment, and develop self-confidence in them. Similarly, I found problems like adjustment in new environment, lack of confidence, high level of hesitation, interaction with students and parents, and fluency in language. Teacher induction program is not in practices formally or informally. But, some developed instituted is conducted informally. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic in which background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition for the key terms are included. The second chapter consists of the review of related theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implication of the study and conceptual framework. In the same way, chapter three includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter is about analysis of data and interpretations of result. And the five chapter deals with findings, conclusion and recommendations which are summed up from the analysis and interpretations of the collected data for the purpose of research.The references and appendices have been included in the last part of the thesis.