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Session code: 4-3-A203

Title: Being a teacher as a second career:The training effect upon changes in educational attitudes of army officers.

Contributer/s: Haim-Henry Gaziel, Ronit Binyamini, Joseph Klein

Abstract : The study was designed in order to examine the effect of teaching training for retired officers who decided to become teachers as a second career.

The sample included 88 students(of both genders) who joined Beit Berl College for teachers' training in Israel. Forty four were officers who decided to be retired earlier, in order to be trained as teachers(as a second career) and 44 were regular students.

The two groups were required to fill an educational attitudes questionnaire developed by Kramer-Hayoun(1977) and refined by Danieli(1991). The subjects filled the questionnaire before joining the training courses and terminating the training coureses(two years after).

Findings reveals: taht the training do have effects upon both groups, however the effect was more significant in the regular group. The officers group remianed more conservative in their educational attitudes than their counterparts.