Thinking Styles of New Mathematics Teachers and Their Relation to Self-Esteem

Yousef Abd Algani̇,Amer Haj

doi:10.31458/iejes.707401

Abstract

The teacher’s self-esteem affects his point of view, his thinking style, and his attitudes towards education. It also generally influences the teacher’s behavior during the lesson session, his relationship with students, his teaching style, and also his expectations of the students as well as the decisions that he makes in his teaching plans. It can also have a significant impact on his students in developing their thinking style, and in helping students to overcome their educational difficulties and their fear of the subject they are studying. This research aims to determine the contribution of self-esteem in forecasting thinking styles among new mathematics teachers. The significance of this study is to determine the contribution of self-esteem in forecasting thinking styles in order to draw the attention of educators and researchers when preparing teacher training programs including their syllabus and the teaching material, because it will affect their performance and their students in the future. The researcher used the quantitative method and Thinking Styles Inventory to check the contribution of self-esteem in forecasting the thinking styles of the new mathematics teachers. The researcher will also use the Self-esteem scale to check the contribution of self-esteem in forecasting the thinking styles of the new mathematics teachers. The study sample consisted of 169 participants (79 males, 90 female): new mathematics teachers in Israel. The results show that the correlation coefficients between the legislative thinking style and self-esteem were significant (1.4%). and show that the correlation coefficients between the executive thinking style and self-esteem was significant at (2.8%).

Highlights

The phenomenon of human thinking is very complex because it includes all types of mental activity, or cognitive behaviour
The researcher's sense of the problem has crystallized from the following: 1) What is the contribution of the self-esteem in forecasting the legislative thinking style of the new mathematics teachers? 2) What is the contribution of the self-esteem in forecasting the executive thinking style of the new mathematics teachers? The objective of the research is to determine the contribution of the Self-esteem, in forecasting thinking styles in function dimension among the new mathematics teachers in Israel
The current study was limited to the mathematics teachers only for the following reasons: 1) There are some studies that have proven that students of mathematics had their own thinking styles that distinguish them from others

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Introduction

The phenomenon of human thinking is very complex because it includes all types of mental activity, or cognitive behaviour. Thinking is one of the most important processes that help the individual to function in his daily life. The individual's way of thinking is often determined by his or her way of life (Ciarrochi, Heaven & Davies, 2007). According to this growing interest in the phenomenon of thinking, some theories emerged which focused on the individuals' thinking styles used to deal with life problems. They reflected the individuals' favourite ways of thinking, which is irrespective of their abilities. It is important to draw people to the type of education or profession commensurate with both their capabilities and their thinking styles (Brand, Felner, Seitsinger, Burns, & Bolton, 2008)

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