Who Chooses Primary Teaching and Why?

Autor/inn/en	Weiss, Sabine; Kiel, Ewald
Titel	Who Chooses Primary Teaching and Why?
Quelle	In: Issues in Educational Research, 23 (2013) 3, S.415-433 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-7155
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preservice Teachers; Elementary School Teachers; Teacher Education; Teaching (Occupation); Motivation; Comparative Analysis; Statistical Analysis; Self Efficacy; Teacher Responsibility; Career Choice; Family Work Relationship; Measures (Individuals); Interpersonal Competence; Faculty Development; Teacher Surveys; Questionnaires; Decision Making; Self Esteem; Secondary School Teachers; Professional Identity; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Teaching; Lehrberuf; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Statistische Analyse; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Lehrverpflichtung; Messdaten; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Fragebogen; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Deutschland
Abstract	This study investigates who chooses primary teaching and how prospective primary school teachers differ from future teachers in other types of schools. Using variance analysis, future student-teachers of different types of schools are compared with regard to their motives for the choice of studies and profession. As a main result, prospective primary school teachers display a particular pedagogical motivational structure, idealism, and the wish for compatibility between family and professional life. In regard to their self-image, students of primary education have lower expectations of self-efficacy, but a higher awareness of responsibility. Conclusions as well as practical implications can be drawn for both the professionalisation of the teaching profession and teacher training, for example concerning the stabilisation or destabilisation of decisions on the choice of profession, realistic ideas about the professional field, and the strengthening of self-reflection. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. 5/202 Coode Street, Como, Western Australia 6152, Australia. e-mail: editor@iier.org.au; Web site: http://www.waier.org.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10