The Influence of Social Status, System Pressure, Limited Facilities, and the Work Environment on Aspirations to Improve Teacher Professionalism in Rokan Hilir Regency

Abstract

To describe the condition of the teachers in Rokan Hilir Regency according to the type of education unit and the level of education in a more accurate and clear manner and to find out the extent to which social status, system pressure, limited facilities and the work environment influence the aspirations of public school teachers in Rokan Hilir Regency to improve their professionalism. The population in this study were public primary school teachers who served in Rokan Hilir Regency, Riau, Indonesia. The primary data was collected by circulating questionnaires with closed questions and equipped with several open questions to obtain opinions that are free from the respondents. The findings are the aspirations to increase professionalism are in between middle and low level, such aspirations indicate that there is a tendency for ritualism in the form of obedience to ‘institutional means’. No previous study explain the tendency of the emergence of ritualism symptoms of teachers in school by measuring their aspiration level to improve professionalism