Abstract

• The main purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between attitudes and implementation of primary teachers towards new curriculum. By using a stratified random sampling method, one of the random sampling strategies, sample of (196) primary teachers from the selected basic education schools in Taungtha Township, Mandalay Region was selected to collect the required data. A survey research design, one of the quantitative research designs, was used in this study. In the collection of data, two instruments: questionnaires for attitudes of primary teachers towards new curriculum and implementation level of new curriculum were employed. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected data. The attitudes of participants towards new curriculum were analyzed by using descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations). To examine the differences between primary teachers’ attitudes towards new curriculum, and implementation of new curriculum in terms of teaching experiences, teacher training programme and school level, inferential statistics such as one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Post Hoc tests were utilized. And then, Pearson product-movement correlation was used to explore the relationship between attitudes and implementation of primary teachers towards new curriculum. The results revealed that there was positively moderately correlation between attitudes and implementation of primary teachers towards new curriculum at r(1,196) = .401, p < .01. It can be interpreted that the more the teachers have positive attitudes towards new curriculum, the more the teachers actively and successfully participate in the implementation of new curriculum.