A Study of Comparative Teacher-freezing of Higher Education Teachers working in Rural and Urban Areas

The present study was intended to investigate the teacher-freezing of higher education teachers in context of locality (rural and urban) of their institutions. The objective of the study was to compare the teacher-freezing of rural and urban area higher education teachers on each dimension of teacher-freezing and their overall freezing. A total of 160 higher education teachers with 80 rural and 80 urban degree college teachers were selected randomly from various higher education institutions of Varanasi region, Uttar Pradesh, for the study. Teacher-freezing Scale (TFS) developed by Dr Haseen Taj (1996) was administered on the samples to assess teacher-freezing. Shapiro-Wilk test was applied to check the normality of data sets and CR-test was applied to find out the significance of difference between mean freezing scores of the two. Findings of the study revealed that rural and urban area higher education teachers show approximately the same level of teacher-freezing overall. No significant differences were found between them on Intellectual, Psychological, Social and Physical dimensions of teacher-freezing. They differ only on Moral-dimension of teacher-freezing. Urban area college teachers were found more freeze in comparison to rural area college teachers on Moral-dimension of teacher-freezing.