Value orientations of Central Philippine University faculty

Abstract

This study aimed to gather information on the value orientations of the faculty members at Central Philippine University. Incidentally, it should be mentioned that this is just one of the many facets of the preparation of instruments of measurement designed for institutional self-analysis.

But why study the value orientations of teachers in this school? Isn’t this an exercise in futility, particularly in the context of a pluralistic society. What have these orientations got to do with their work as teachers? If we consider the fact that value orientations are in the center of the attitudinal domains in psychological space, and if these “give order and direction to the ever-flowing stream of acts and thoughts as these to the solution ‘common human’ problems” [Kluckholn, et al: 1961], it is entirely possible that these values will affect the teachers’ attitude towards their students, the subject matter they are teaching, and more importantly, towards the concomitant learnings that they intentionally or unintentionally impart daily.