Personal and Family Characteristics Associated with Reasons Given by Teacher Candidates for Becoming Teachers in the 1990's: Implications for the Recruitment of Teachers.

Autor/inn/en	Marso, Ronald N.; Pigge, Fred L.
Titel	Personal and Family Characteristics Associated with Reasons Given by Teacher Candidates for Becoming Teachers in the 1990's: Implications for the Recruitment of Teachers.
Quelle	(1994), (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Career Choice; Education Majors; Elementary Secondary Education; Family Characteristics; Family Influence; Higher Education; Preservice Teacher Education; Social Influences; Special Education; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Teacher Influence; Teacher Recruitment; Teaching (Occupation) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Sozialer Einfluss; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerrekrutierung; Teaching; Lehrberuf
Abstract	This study sought to identify a set of factors that teacher candidates perceived to have influenced their decisions to become teachers and then to determine the family and personal characteristics of the candidates that might be associated with these perceived influences. The subjects were 377 teacher candidates commencing the teacher preparation program of a large midwestern university in the spring term of 1991. As part of orientation to the required entry course, candidates chose from among 16 influences or reasons which they felt may have led to their decision to become teachers. Candidates also provided personal and family characteristics information on various instruments. Results found that six of the eight reasons most frequently cited for becoming teachers were associated with the influences of other people or experiences with people: liking children, former teachers, prior experience with children, parents, favorable work schedule, and love of a subject field. The results also indicated that presence of teachers in the family, birth order in the family, education and income of parents, candidate gender, interactions with youth, enjoyment of learning, and former teachers were all among the factors influencing the decision to teach. Includes a discussion of implications for recruitment. (Contains 31 references.) (JB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01