Relationship Between Spiritual Engagement and Teacher Engagement

Abstract

The study investigated the relationship between Spiritual Engagement (SE) and Teacher Engagement (TE) and level teacher engagement among teachers in higher education. A sample consists of 151 teachers from three higher education Institutes of Hyderabad. All respondents were assessed using a structured questionnaire and the questionnaire included 16 items consisting of four components of teacher Engagement taken from Engaged Teacher Scale (ETS) validated by Klassen et al (2013) and 4 items for Spiritual Engagement taken from SISRI developed by D. King (2008). The study revealed high correlation between Spiritual Engagement (SE) and Teacher Engagement (TE) also high level of Teacher Engagement due to the presence of Spiritual Engagement (SE). The study suggests to improve sub factors of CE and SEC effective teacher engagement and provides a future scope for developing a New model by adding a component SE in Engaged Teacher scale (ETS) and also design new scale for TE by including SE component.