Educators’ Favoritism: Evidenced based Opinions of Pupil Teachers

Abstract

Favoritism occurs in each discipline of life, specifically in educational organizations. This study is designed to explore the pupil teachers’ opinions about favoritism, further to identify the dominant factor of teachers’ favoritism at Institute of Education and Research (IER), University of the Punjab, Lahore. The participants were the pupil teachers’ enrolled in Master Degree Programme of session (2015-2017). 225 pupil teachers were selected by non-proportional stratified random sampling method. Adapted questionnaire was used in this study which was developed by Dr. Ismail Aydogan (2008) in Turkey. Instrument contained of 28 statements which further divided into its four subscales: nature of preference, violation of rules, students’ assessment and terms of communication. Descriptive and Inferential statistical techniques were applied to analyze to data. Results exhibited that majority of pupil teachers agreed that educators give favor to female pupil teachers throughout the educational career. The “nature of preference” is the dominant factor of teachers’ favoritism at Institute of Education and Research which shows that teachers give performance to socially well-placed, beautiful\handsome, relative and ideologically closed learners. It was concluded that there was insignificant difference in the opinions of pupil teachers about favouritism with respect to gender and program (morning and self-support). It is recommended that for accountability determination the management need to develop casual contacts with the learners.