Extent of Job Satisfaction Among Primary Female Teachers and Peace Education: A Sociological Analysis of Purnia District of Bihar

Abstract

Purnia is one of the oldest district of Bihar and famous for agriculture. As far as literacy rate is concerned, it is the least literate state of Bihar with only 52.09% literacy rate. Thus this district has been selected for study as teachers play the vital role in the development of society. That is why a study is made to see the relationship between their performance in giving peace education and job satisfaction Job satisfaction is a vital aspect which directly affects the performance of employees. Comparative evaluated design is used and percentage is applied for the analysis of data obtained from stratified random sampling of one hundred primary teachers divided into equal number of under graduate ad post graduate employed with full fledged salary or the newly given salary in government schools of Purnia district of Bihar, specially in nearby localities . All are interviewed individually by a structured questionnaire separately and the collected responses are transformed into enquiry item wise percentage to identify job satisfaction. The result reveals that the job satisfaction among the newly appointed teachers is quite low; however, among old teachers is high . The teachers who have low level of job satisfaction do not give peace education which may bring up the standard of society. For quality education and peace education, it is necessary to enhance job satisfaction in teachers, both new and old.