A Comparative Study of Career Motivations and Perceptions of Student Teachers

Autor/inn/en	Ekin, Semih; Yetkin, Ramazan; Öztürk, Samed Yasin
Titel	A Comparative Study of Career Motivations and Perceptions of Student Teachers
Quelle	16 (2021) 1, S.505-516 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ekin, Semih) ORCID (Yetkin, Ramazan) ORCID (Öztürk, Samed Yasin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2667-5609
Schlagwörter	Career Choice; Teaching (Occupation); Motivation; Altruism; Values; Social Influences; Gender Differences; Prior Learning; College Seniors; College Freshmen; Preservice Teachers; Young Adults; Public Colleges; Predictor Variables; Job Satisfaction; Foreign Countries; Incentives; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching; Lehrberuf; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Wertbegriff; Sozialer Einfluss; Geschlechterkonflikt; Vorkenntnisse; College; Colleges; Senior; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Studienanfänger; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Prädiktor; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Ausland; Anreiz; Türkei
Abstract	Choosing teaching as a career includes many different factors, reasons and parameters. These factors can vary in time by the changes in the culture, politics, or society. Teachers and their reasons about why they chose teaching as a career have been an important issue for researchers. Many researches have been done to understand the reasons of the student teachers to choose this profession. This study, in this sense, investigates the career motivations and career perceptions of student teachers in relation to their gender and grade. The participants were 48 first-year and 54 fourth-year students (totally 104) in a teacher preparation program at a state university, in Turkey. The study adopted a quantitative approach by using a scale. The data were collected in 2018-2019 academic year. The results suggested that both the first and the fourth-year students were mostly motivated by altruistic reasons and their prior teaching and learning experiences. Both male and female participants had no significant differences related to the motivational factors to become a teacher. The study also asserted that the satisfaction with the choice of teaching was predicted mostly by intrinsic career values, altruistic reasons and lastly task return (salary and status). The result were discussed in line with current studies in the literature. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01