The purpose of this study was to present the directions for the development of special education by finding out how special school organization culture affects special education teachers' job satisfaction.
The study subjects were 243 special school t...
The purpose of this study was to present the directions for the development of special education by finding out how special school organization culture affects special education teachers' job satisfaction.
The study subjects were 243 special school teachers located in Seoul, Daegu, Busan, ncheon, Daejeon, South Gyeongsang Province, Kyonggi-do, Gyeongsangbuk-do.
In this study, a self-administrated method survey was created to collect and analyze data. The data was used by each background factors performed with average(M) and standard deviation (SD) t-test, based on verification, One-way ANOVA (One-way ANOVA), Scheffe post-validation and performed with the Pearson correlation coefficient.
The conclusions through the results and discussions were as follows:
First, the recognitions of school organization culture from the teachers of special education were not different by their gender, education, teaching career, working area, areas for the disabled, but there was a significant difference by their school types and school ranks.
In the special school organization culture by school types, the relationships between teachers and administrators showed more positive in the private school than in the public school.
In the relationships between teachers and students, private schools revealed more positive than public schools.
Given the relationship between teachers and students by working areas, it was more positive in towns and villages than in metropolitan and small cities, but the relationship between teachers and administrators and their tendency of decision-making indicated a reversed outcome: more positive in metropolitan and small cities.
Second, special education teachers' job satisfaction unfolded that there was no significant difference in gender, education, teaching career, working area, disability divisions, school types and school ranks.
However, the degrees of the administrative support and reward as well as of professional development and curriculum implementation were higher in towns and villages than in metropolitan cities and small cities.
Job satisfaction by disability divisions was higher in the order of developmental disabilities, sensory (visual, auditory) disabilities, mental retardation, and multiple disability.
In addition, there was a statistically significant difference in the job satisfaction of teachers' total sub-factors, according to the professional development and curriculum implementation and disability divisions.
Third, the relationship between the recognition of organizational culture and job satisfaction showed significant static correlation.
Most of the sub-factors were statistically proportional except relationship between administrators and professional development and curriculum implementation, relationship between students and professional development and curriculum implementation.
In follow-up studies, in-depth analysis between sub-variables should be carried out, and a more generalized scale in careful consideration of special school occasions should also be developed.