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Influence of Special Education Teacher’s Empowerment on Teacher Commitment : Focusing on the Mediate Effect Of Teacher Efficacy

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2012, 13(2), pp.225-244
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

SHIM,Woo-Jeong 1

1평택대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the special education teacher’ empowerment on teacher commitment. In this study, teacher efficacy was set up as mediate variable. Data was collected from Seoul, Keongki, Keongnam, and Jeonbuk province. A total of 180 special education teachers participated in this study. Finfing of the study are as follows: Firstly, special education teacher’s empowerment have influence on teacher’s commitment. Especially, meaning and competence factor has powerful effect on special education teacher’s commitment. Secondly, special education teacher’ empowerment has influence on teacher efficacy. This fact explain that special education teacher’s empowerment is powerful resource of teacher efficacy. Thirdly, special education teacher’s efficacy mediate the relationship between special education teacher’s empowerment and teacher commitment. Teacher efficacy has synersy effect on special education teacher’ commitment. So I propose that school leader enable special education teacher to reinforce special education teacher’ empowerment and their teacher efficacy.

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