Motivations for choosing teaching as a career: An international comparison using the FIT-Choice scale

Verdier, engasjement og tilhørighet som drivkrefter i lærerstudenters yrkesvalg og utvikling av læreridentitet

“…Videre samsvarer våre funn om den verdibaserte motivasjonen for å bli laerer med resultater fra flere land (Watt et al, 2012).…”

“…Når det gjelder laererstudenter og laerere, har internasjonale studier vist at ulike faktorer kan påvirke hvordan de oppfatter verdien av en oppgave. Dette kan blant annet vaere om oppgaven oppfattes som betydningsfull og viktig eller om den er meningsfull for å nå egne personlige mål (Watt & Richardson, 2007;Watt et al, 2012). Banduras (1997Banduras ( , 2006 sosialkognitive teori om mestringsforventning har mange likhetstrekk med forventning om mestring i expectancy-value teorien, men det som skiller, er at verdier ikke er fremtredende.…”

Who chooses teaching under different labor market conditions? Evidence from West Germany, 1980–2009

“…Despite decades of research on teachers' career choice motivations (e.g. Brookhart & Freeman, 1992;Rothland, 2011;Tudhope, 1944;Watt, et al, 2012;Young, 1995), only one study, to my knowledge, traces changes in motivations over cohorts (Jantzen, 1981). The author finds that extrinsic motivations, such as adequate income, retirement provisions and tenure laws were declining in importance between the mid-1940s and the late 1970s among pre-service teachers in the U.S., while intrinsic pedagogical motives such as an "interest in dealing with children" became more relevant over time.…”

“…According to Watt and Richardson (2007) extrinsic motivations (also named 'personal utility values') such as job security, transferability, and time for family, relate negatively to later planned persistence and career choice satisfaction. Among student teachers, the strongest extrinsic career choice motivation is "job security" (König & Rothland, 2013;Watt, et al, 2012). Blömeke and colleagues (2012) find negative effects of such motivations (example item "I seek the long-term security associated with being a teacher") on different professional knowledge dimensions among future primary school teachers.…”

Choosing a career : a study of motivational factors and demographics that influence P-12 pre-service teachers.

“…There are studies using the FIT-Choice scale which are being conducted in Canada, Belgium, China, Malaysia, Ireland, Estonia, the Netherlands, West-Indies, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, and Croatia (Watt et al, 2012). As previously mentioned, expectancy value theory and social cognitive theories were used as a foundation for the FIT-Choice theoretical framework (Richardson & Watt, 2006 The second section: perceptions about teaching which will be referred throughout the study as perceptions, explores participants perceptions about the teaching profession.…”