Caring Teaching as a Moral Practice: An Exploratory Study on Perceived Dimensions of Caring Teaching

Table 1

Sample description.

	Primary teachers	Middle school teachers	High-school teachers	Total
	(𝑁=125)	(𝑁=221)	(𝑁=204)	(𝑁=556)
Gender 𝑁 (%)
Female	40 (32.0)	96 (43.4)	88 (43.1)	224 (40.3)
Male	85 (68.0)	125 (56.6)	116 (56.9)	332 (59.7)
Age
Mean	35.65	34.64	35.27	35.08
(Min–Max)	(21–50)	(20–52)	(20–50)	(20–52)
SD	6.55	6.92	5.58	6.35
Experience
Mean	14.45	13.24	13.61	13.63
(Min–Max)	(1–23)	(1–28)	(1–27)	(1–28)
SD	6.68	7.15	6.02	6.63