2023
DOI: 10.14507/cie.vol24iss1.2069
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"Not motivated but frustrated": Preservice Teachers’ Career Choice Motivations and Professional Identity in an African Context

Abstract: This study examines preservice teachers’ career choice motivations and professional identity in an African context, Nigeria, using a narrative research method. It draws on the stories of 37 social education preservice teachers at a university in Nigeria about their teacher-becoming trajectory and teaching practice experience to realize its aims. Findings show that in Nigeria, the choice of teaching is highly motivated by fallback higher education programs, extrinsic, and socialization influence factors, while … Show more

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