Lifelong Learning Attitude and its Relationship to Continuing Professional Development among a Sample of Teachers in Al-Buhaira Governorate

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Faculty of Education, Damanhour University, Egypt

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Teachers are one of fundamentals of developing educational process. Therefore, attention must be given to ways to develop and qualify them academically and educationally for their continued professional development. Sopresent study aimed to explore relationship of Lifelong learning attitude and their contribution to teachers’ Continuing professional development. Also aims to reveal the differences in lifelong learning attitude in light of three categorical variables (educational qualification, teaching experience, and gender). Study sample consisted of 223 male and female teachers from Beheira Governorate. Measures of lifelong learning attitude and the Continuing professional development were administered.  The results showed a statistically significant effect at level 0.01 for the lifelong learning attitude in predicting continuing professional development, and there were statistically significant differences at level (0.01) in lifelong learning attitude according to the difference in the educational qualifications of teachers (Those who hold a bachelor’s degree in education, and those who hold a non-educational bachelor’s degree) in favor of teachers who hold a non-educational bachelor’s degree, Also, there were statistically significant differences at level 0.01 in the orientation to lifelong learning attitude according to the difference in teaching experiences of teachers (with less than 10 years of teaching experience / with 10 years of teaching experience or more) in favor of teachers with less than 10 years of teaching experience. There were also statistically significant differences when Level (0.05) in lifelong learning attitude according to the difference of gender (males/ females) in favor of females. Recommendations and suggestions for future research are provided.

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