"Those Who Can, Educate": The Academic Ability of College Students in Education Programs in Taiwan

Autor/in	Wang, Hsiou-Huai
Titel	"Those Who Can, Educate": The Academic Ability of College Students in Education Programs in Taiwan
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 37 (2012) 5, S.527-540 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2010.527326
Schlagwörter	Academic Ability; Academic Achievement; Foreign Countries; College Students; Education Majors; Teacher Education; Student Recruitment; Nonmajors; Occupational Aspiration; Cultural Context; Social Environment; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Ausland; Collegestudent; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Soziales Umfeld
Abstract	Recruiting high-caliber individuals into education programs in higher education institutions to train them to be tomorrow's educators/teachers has been a perennial challenge. Students in education programs are found to be in general lower in academic standing than their counterparts in other fields, reflecting a seemingly distressing phenomenon of "those who cannot, educate". In contrast to such a discouraging phenomenon, this article shows that in Taiwan, based on a nationally representative data set of 12,246 college students, students in education programs are academically more outstanding than their non-education counterparts. Furthermore, among education majors, those who aspire to be future teachers have even higher academic quality than their non-teaching counterparts. The underlying policy and socio-cultural contexts of such a positive phenomenon of "those who can, educate" are further explained and implications for educators in other countries are discussed. (Contains 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10