Understanding teachers’ motivation for and commitment to teaching: profiles of Chinese early career,early childhood teachers     

Limin Zhang  Shulin Yu 《Teachers and Teaching》2019,25(7):890-914

ABSTRACT

To better understand the reasons underlying attrition and the teacher shortage, and to develop ways to attract and retain high-quality teachers in early childhood education, it is necessary to explore teacher motivation and commitment to teaching. Although previous research has investigated various aspects of teacher motivation and commitment to teaching, little attention has been paid to this in the context of early childhood teachers, especially early career teachers. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 12 early career, early childhood teachers in mainland China, this study aims to examine early career early childhood teachers’ motivation to teach and commitment to teaching in the Chinese context. Four distinct types of early career, early childhood educators were identified: committed passionate, committed compromiser, undecided, and uncommitted. Each of these had unique motives for teaching and different levels of commitment to kindergarten teaching in mainland China. The four types of early career early childhood teachers identified in this study demonstrate the diversity and complexity of teaching motivation and commitment to teaching in the field of early childhood education. The findings from this study can provide implications for policy-makers and teacher educators to enhance novice teachers’ motivation and commitment to teaching in the early childhood context.  相似文献   

下岗职工劳动关系改革的思路与对策     

贺虹 《怀化学院学报》2001,20(6):15-17

改革劳动关系是解决下岗职工再就业的关键。目前国有企业下岗职工所面临的劳动关系 ,是计划体制与市场体制交替过程中由体制错位导致的一种混乱劳动关系。改革当前劳动关系的对策有 :消除下岗职工流动的制度障碍 ;建立完善的劳动力信息网络体系。  相似文献   

许慎生平事迹考辨(一)     

顿嵩元 《漯河职业技术学院学报》2003,2(3):73-75

东汉经学家、文字学家、训诂学家和词汇学家许慎 ,他的《说文解字》是我国历史上最早的一部汉字研究著作。其生平事迹等史书上记载不甚详明 ,后学者看法有异。  相似文献   

Entering the occupational category of ‘Farmer’: new pathways through professional agricultural education in Ireland   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Justine Deming  Áine Macken-Walsh  Bernadette O'Brien  James Kinsella 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2019,25(1):63-78

Purpose: Understand the emergence of new potential career trajectories in the liberalised Irish dairy farming sector through analysis of the narratives of students of a Professional Diploma in Dairy Farm Management

Design/methodology/approach: A review of the literature highlights that entry to a working life in agriculture has been characterised by protracted farm succession processes; a strong association between being a farmer and owning land in the family name; lingering male identities esteeming manual labour; and a pragmatic need at farm level for manual work. The abolition of milk quota in 2015 was predicted to catalyse expansion of production on dairy farms with an increase in milk production; accompanied by a demand for qualified personnel. The BNIM method was employed.

Findings: Results confirm that agricultural education is perceived and experienced as offering new pathways for young farmers to enter the occupational category of ‘farmer’, helping to manoeuvre around the constraints of non-inheritance. The students’ narratives evidenced managerial identities, being strongly influenced by encountering management approaches through their agricultural education. All students desired to eventually own a farm someday and to be to employed as a professional dairy farm manager was a perceived as an intermediary goal.

Practical implication: Discontinuation of the traditional family farming model based on family farm/land ownership is not imminent even among a cohort qualified to become employed dairy farm managers.

Theoretical implication: This paper contributes to theoretical framework which highlights the shift in farmer masculine identity and the career trajectory of graduates of specialised agricultural education programmes.  相似文献   

聋人大学生职业生涯辅导探析     

赵侠 《中国特殊教育》2005,(10):13-16

职业生涯辅导在我国的高等特殊教育中具有独特的价值。本文从促进聋人大学生职业成长和终身发展的视角,分析了聋人大学生职业生涯辅导的缺失与问题,探讨了聋人大学生的心理特点及对其职业生涯发展的消极影响,提出了对聋人大学生进行科学职业生涯辅导的内容、方法和途径。  相似文献   

Creating a distinctive business career outcome programme     

Sethlyn Morgan  Greg Rawski 《Journal of Vocational Education & Training》2018,70(2):251-277

This article describes how a small private business school, accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, reengineered its career services programme to become a premier programme in the United States. Drawing on theory of involvement, the research gives business schools a strategy to improve business career placement through capital support, student engagement, corporate engagement, alumni engagement, faculty engagement and continuous improvement initiatives. Further, two major outcome categories (i.e. supportive outcomes and end outcomes) are identified and various measures are discussed. Supportive outcomes indicate growth in the number of on-campus business recruiting career events, high internship evaluations by internship supervisors and significant increase in students’ satisfaction with career services. End outcomes provide strong evidence for placement rate success with a 98% career placement rate for the past four years, significant increase on mean starting salaries of graduates across the years following the implementation of the strategic changes, improved quality of positions attained by graduates, and professional success of alumni in their positions. The impact of strategic changes on school ranking, enrolment and donor support are also discussed. The research proposes a model of student career success and identifies various elements influencing the success of such programmes.  相似文献   

天光云影共徘徊——申跃中创作命运思考(上)     

孟抗美 《保定师专学报》2002,15(1):50-53

申跃中几十年起伏多变的创作命运,始终没有离开过中国当代这一特定历史时期时代因素的缠绕。这一因素既把他涌向潮头,也把他推向低谷,使他与时代、与社会结下了永远的不解之缘。在这一过程中,作家对创作道路的自觉选择和对艺术境界的自觉追求对创作命运具有重要意义,时代感召和主体抉择的共同作用,使作家走上了一条成功之路。  相似文献   

Identifying core competencies to advance female professors’ careers: an exploratory study in United States academia     

Ga-eun Seo  Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi  Wenhao Huang 《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2017,41(6):741-759

This exploratory study aims to identify the core competencies necessary to successfully advance the careers of female associate professors in higher education. To ascertain these core career competencies, a critical incident interview technique was employed. One-to-one semi-structured interviews with six female full professors at a major research university in the Midwestern region of the United States were conducted. Based on participants’ career advancement experiences, the following competencies were identified: (1) making important connections, (2) fulfilling responsibilities in academia, (3) being politically savvy, (4) managing personal and professional obligations, (5) developing a sense of self-agency for one’s career, and (6) believing in one’s self in the work environment. The action-oriented findings of this research, rather than skill-based, can be easily adapted by faculty and institutions, both domestically and internationally, to improve current practices. These findings offer a unique contribution for improving the research and practice of career development among female faculty in higher education.  相似文献   

成人高校学生职业指导工作探析     

潘静 《继续教育研究》2007,(1):105-107

在人们关注大学生就业及职业生涯发展的今天,成人高校学生作为高等教育的特殊群体,他们的就业及职业发展问题尚未引起足够的重视。本文从成人高校学生的特殊性出发,尝试分析了成人高校职业指导的特点、实施的原则及其意义所在。  相似文献   

EFL teachers’ perceptions of English language policy at the elementary level in Taiwan     

Ya‐Chen Su 《Educational studies》2006,32(3):265-283

Due in large part to the trends towards economic globalization, English has become the most widely disseminated and ubiquitous international language. The purpose of the study was to investigate what Taiwan’s EFL teachers at the elementary level believe about the policy of English as a compulsory subject and how they perceive the benefits and obstacles of the policy’s implementation. Ten elementary English teachers in Tainan City and its suburban areas participated in this study. Data were collected through teachers’ interviews, classroom observation and document analysis. Results found that all ten teachers agreed with the policy for English as a compulsory subject at the elementary level. They observed both positive and negative sides of this top‐down policy. Classroom observation and interview data revealed that EFL teachers had to plan their English classes with the constraints on a large class of students with mixed levels of proficiency, limited teaching hours and resources. Parents’ expectations of and attitudes towards English learning also became an obstacle.  相似文献