A STUDY OF VALUE PATTERNS OF PROSPECTIVE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN RELATION TO GENDER, TYPE OF INSTITUTION, STREAM OF STUDY

The main purpose of the research was to study the value patterns of prospective primary school teachers as they are the future teachers and many times become the role models of their students. Primary school teachers are holding important responsibility in shaping the future of small children as they are foundation of our future. The researcher took 640 prospective primary school teachers from 14 institutions which provide junior basic teaching training from twelve districts of Himachal Pradesh. The sample was selected randomly. Value patterns scale by R.K. Ojha and M. Bhargava was used for the study. The analysis and interpretation of the data was done by calculating the mean scores of the values.