Geography Undergraduates into Teaching: A Five Year Experiment

Bradbeer, John

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“…With time this percentage gradually decreased. For example, in Portsmouth's department by the mid-1990s, only four or five from graduating cohorts of 110-130 took their places on Initial Teacher Training programmes and of these, most chose primary school teaching (Bradbeer, 2010). Current statistics on career destinations of geographers prepared by HESCU indicate that the number of graduates who work in school as education professionals amounts to 6%, and 3% are those who find jobs in childcare, health and other education occupations (What do graduates …, 2017).…”

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The situation of geography teachers on the labour market in Poland: overt and covert issues

Piróg¹,

Hibszer²

2020

EJG

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Economic, social and cultural changes generate new challenges on the labour market for teachers in every country. Poland has recently witnessed significant changes in factors that were identified in literature as crucial to the situation of teachers on the labour market, such as systemic reforms, demographic trends, the overall situation on the labour market and occupational prestige. The scale and impact of some of these factors can be precisely measured and statistically accounted for, yet there are others that remain somehow hidden. The objective of the article is to present and analyse the current situation of geography teachers in Poland, taking into account the impact of both overt and covert factors. The paper is based on an analysis of primary and secondary data. Primary data were collected during our own research on online job advertisements and revolved around information on the real demand for geography teachers. Secondary data were official reports and statistics related to the social and professional standing of teachers in Poland. The analysis proves that in the last ten years the population of teachers has aged and experienced a drop in real wages. There has also been an increase in staff turnover and patchwork careers. Moreover, we have observed that it is highly unlikely to secure a full-time position as a geography teacher and that there have been huge fluctuations in the prestige of geography as a school subject. The identified changes can result in a shortage of qualified geography teachers in the short term, particularly in cities

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The situation of geography teachers on the labour market in Poland: overt and covert issues

Piróg¹,

Hibszer²

2020

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Slow convergence: Career impediments to interdisciplinary biomedical research

Berkes,

Marion,

Milojević

et al. 2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Despite the long-standing calls for increased levels of interdisciplinary research as a way to address society’s grand challenges, most science is still disciplinary. To understand the slow rate of convergence to more interdisciplinary research, we examine 154,021 researchers who received a PhD in a biomedical field between 1970 and 2013, measuring the interdisciplinarity of their articles using the disciplinary composition of references. We provide a range of evidence that interdisciplinary research is impactful, but that those who conduct it face early career impediments. The researchers who are initially the most interdisciplinary tend to stop publishing earlier in their careers—it takes about 8 y for half of the researchers in the top percentile in terms of initial interdisciplinarity to stop publishing, compared to more than 20 y for moderately interdisciplinary researchers (10th to 75th percentiles). Moreover, perhaps in response to career challenges, initially interdisciplinary researchers on average decrease their interdisciplinarity over time. These forces reduce the stock of interdisciplinary researchers who can train future cohorts. Indeed, new graduates tend to be less interdisciplinary than the stock of active researchers. We show that interdisciplinarity does increase over time despite these dampening forces because initially disciplinary researchers become more interdisciplinary as their careers progress.

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Geography Undergraduates into Teaching: A Five Year Experiment

Cited by 2 publications

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The situation of geography teachers on the labour market in Poland: overt and covert issues

The situation of geography teachers on the labour market in Poland: overt and covert issues

Slow convergence: Career impediments to interdisciplinary biomedical research

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