College of Education: Tutors’ Perceived Professional Practice and their Well-Being
Abstract
The well-being of tutors is a multifaceted concept encompassing various dimensions of their physical, emotional, and social health. The study examines the tutor’s perceived professional practice and their well-being. A descriptive research design was used for the study. The accessible population was four out of the seven colleges of education with a sample size of 202 tutors’’. A standardized instrument was adapted with an alpha value of .869. From the findings, it was evident that some of the variables in the well-being factors predicted higher than others. The environmental well-being factors revealed that 7 out of 9 items of respondents believe that their College of Education environment was conducive to effective professional practice. However, 2 out of the 9 items, the respondents were in disagreement with because they were of the opinion that their college of education environment affects their effectiveness and efficiency in their professional practice in 21st-century tertiary education. To this, it was recommended that educational managers, administrators, quality assurance officers and other stakeholders of the colleges should formulate policies that will enable tutors’’ to continuously develop themselves professionally and also improve their professional practice. it is also recommended that tutors’’' personal well-being factors should be factored into their condition of service by stakeholders to enhance their self-esteem to perform their professional practice
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