Students’ Attitudes Towards Their Male and Female Teachers in Azzaytuna University

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate undergraduates’ attitudes towards their female teachers. Accordingly, the broad research enquiries suggested for this study involved students’ reactive perspectives concerning their female teachers’ pedagogical behaviours; including, teaching methods, psychological and cultural considerations. Such variables were accounted for because teachers and students are exposed to exactly the same curricula and belong to the same educational settings, but they still have some kind of trouble in coping with a set of psychological and cultural demands. Simply put, it is a big challenge for students and teachers to express themselves idiosyncratically within a multi-cultural environment. Amongst these cultural demands, there appear the gender constraints which may play an influential role in shaping and regulating classroom behaviours such as communicative interactions, willingness to teach or learn and schooling performance. Thus far, this qualitative study explored the multifaceted dimensions that affect undergraduates’ attitudes to female teachers in classrooms. In-depth interviews were employed as a methodological instrument to generate the required data of this study. Ethical considerations were rigorously considered to avoid any type of harmful or dangerous effects on the interviewees either immediately or later.