A Study on the Transition of Teachers' Awareness of "Productive Activities in Primary Schools" : Effects of Teacher-Training in "Productive Activities"

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to investigate the effects of teacher-training in productive activities on the transition of teachers' awareness of "productive activities in primary schools". We invited teachers to participate in a "Practical training course in productive activities", which consisted of a course of seven class meetings of 90 minutes each. Participating teachers rated their emotional images of "productive activities in primary schools", their perceptions concerning productive activities in their lives and the extent to which the training would have an effect upon the feeling of effectiveness, creativity and so on of the schoolchildren. Furthermore, participants were asked to rate their preferences for each productive activity and their consciousness concerning the extent to which schoolchildren would become skilled at the use of each tool and to which they would acquire a feeling of effectiveness. It was found that practical training in pruductive activities had a positive effect on the final scores of all evaluation items.