PERTANIKA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Adolescence education in secondary stage has been received an increased attention and scholarly debates since students experience a high volume of biological and mental siftment at this stage. Teachers are the most important guides to cope them with their changes; thus, a positive attitude of teacher is an essential. With an elicit cross examining process in connection to teachers' gender, localization, faculty and qualification was considered for practice on the institutionalisation of Adolescence Education in secondary schools at Orissa, India. A total number of 300 secondary school teachers were chosen as subjects of the study by using stratified random sampling procedure. The results of the study determined that male teachers have positive attitude towards Adolescence Education as compared to their science counterparts, whereas male teachers have favourable attitude toward the subject and urban teachers demonstrate their superiority over their rural teachers in their attitude.