Abstract:
Attitudes vary at different times of one’s life and are usually determined by several factors such as work environment, job
satisfaction and status of the profession. Both student-teachers’ and teacher-educators’ attitudes may affect the quality of teacher
preparation program and finally quality of the teacher either positively or negatively. This paper is a focus on the attitude of teacher
educators and student teachers towards teacher education programmes in universities. The study adopted a descriptive survey design.
The study sample consisted of Bachelor of Education fourth year students drawn from three Public universities and three Private
universities, Teacher Educators and Heads of Departments from the faculty of Education. Stratified random sampling was used to
select the universities, student-teachers and Teacher Educators. Data was collected using questionnaires, interview schedules,
observation checklists and documents analysis. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study found that a large percentage
of the respondents portrayed a negative attitude of teacher education programmes. This may be to the fact that most student teachers
and teacher educators enrolled in these programmes, do not have teaching as their professional interest thus join by circumstance. The
study recommends the need to conduct screening of individuals before admission in teacher education programmes so as to ensure that
only those who are interested and committed to teaching as a profession are enrolled
