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Preferential attitudes of children to the image of a schoolteacher
ŠULCOVÁ, Jitka
The image of a teacher is the basic element for obtaining children's confidence. It brings the first immediate information about the teacher's personality but it also plays an important role after a child has learnt about the teacher's personal qualities. The aim of this work was to find out the preschool children's preferences and attitudes to a teacher's image, especially to reveal appearance categories that children consider important (in the both positive or negative meaning) or that they ignore, and how they explain their choice. The theoretical part characterizes a preschool child; it deals with visual and social perception, human personality, and self-interpretation. The methodological part specifies basic terminology related to the research topic (such as qualitative research, grounded theory, method of interview). The method of the qualitative research was used in the practical part in which the sets of black-and-white and colour images of volunteers (portraits and figures of potential kindergarten teachers) were repeatedly presented to a representative group of children. The results of the positive and negative choices and also the reasons of the choices were recorded and obtained data were graphically analyzed. The data analysis clarifies that neither overall image of volunteers nor the colour of clothing do play an important role in the respondents' choices. In the primary decision, the respondents pay more attention to the hair style of volunteers. They prefer neat blond hair (especially in a ponytail) whereas eccentricity (atypical haircut or colour) discourages the respondents. It is also obviuos that the respondents focus on details, such as shape of earrings and glasses, the way of wearing a scarf, images on the T-shirt and etc.) which influence the respondents' choice in a significant way.
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