Relationship between science teachers' teaching motivations and career development aspirations
Journal article
Kang, Jingoo, Viljaranta, Jaana, George, Sindu Vinod and Jappinen, Ilpo. (2024). Relationship between science teachers' teaching motivations and career development aspirations. European Journal of Teacher Education. pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2024.2311698
Authors | Kang, Jingoo, Viljaranta, Jaana, George, Sindu Vinod and Jappinen, Ilpo |
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Abstract | While science teachers play a pivotal role in schools in fostering students’ scientific literacy, interest, and aspirations, many countries face a lack of motivated pre-service teachers (PSTs) for science education. Accordingly, this study aims to explore science PSTs’ motivations for choosing a teaching profession and how these motivations are associated with their aspirations to remain in the teaching profession. The study chose seven factors that were relevant to the Social Cognitive Career Theory framework and investigated the relationships among those factors. The results indicated a positive relationship between the PSTs’ motivation to work with children and career development aspiration, while those who stated having more time for family as the key motivation to choose the teaching profession presented a negative association. Also, this study revealed the critical role of previous learning experiences and perceived teaching ability in increasing the science PST’s planned effort and persistence in the teaching profession. |
Keywords | Teaching motivation; career development aspiration; social cognitive career theory; FIT-Choice; PECDA |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Journal | European Journal of Teacher Education |
Journal citation | pp. 1-18 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 0261-9768 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2024.2311698 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02619768.2024.2311698 |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-18 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 05 Feb 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 14 Jan 2024 |
Deposited | 03 Oct 2024 |
Supplemental file | License File Access Level Open |
Additional information | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. | |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
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