The Attitudes of Student Teachers to Education: A comparison with the attitudes of experienced teachers and a study of changes during the training course

Attitude scales of naturalism, radicalism and tender‐mindedness in education were administered to a representative sample of 300 serving teachers and also to three groups of student teachers, including both students in Training Colleges and graduate students in a University Department of Education. Significant differences between serving teachers and student teachers in attitude were found on all three scales. Changes in educational attitudes during the course of professional training were studied in respect of both the graduate students. Results suggested that changes in attitude resulting from training courses are reversed after experience of full‐time teaching.