1Chairperson & Professor, Department of Education, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, email id: drvandana59@yahoo.com
2Ex-Lecturer, Doaba College of Education, Kharar, Punjab, India, gaganpreet79@gmail.com
The present study was conducted on 600 government and private secondary school teachers of different academic streams in the cities of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula - to study morale in relation to their city type, school type and academic stream and interaction among them. The main findings of the study were that Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula secondary school teachers exhibited difference in teacher morale. Private secondary school teachers exhibited better teacher morale than government secondary school teachers. Teachers of different academic streams, namely, languages, social science, and science and mathematics exhibited comparable teacher morale. Significant difference was found between city type and academic stream with respect to teacher morale, and between school type and academic stream for secondary school teachers with respect to teacher morale.
Teachers, Morale, Teacher morale, Secondary school, Government, Private, Academic stream
