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A végzett pedagógusok diplomás pályakövetése
Graduate Career Tracking of Graduating Teachers

Author(s): Mihály Fónai, Éva Csonka
Subject(s): Sociology of Education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: teachers at the beginning of their careers; graduate career tracking system; family background; characteristics of higher education; matching of knowledge and work; job satisfaction

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on career tracking in selected areas of teachers who have already graduated. The aim is to describe the social background, and professional life path of teachers at the beginning of their career. In addition it seeks to find contexts between the indicators of origin, university study characteristics and career start. The analysis is based on the data found in the Graduate Career Tracking System database between 2016 and 2021. The results from the areas being examined show that the situation of teachers initiating their careers is complex and controversial. Teachers starting their career are typically female teachers, they are first-generation students, and despite the relatively low status of their families, they have relatively significant parental and grandparental teacher background and examples. Their position on the labour market is also contradictory: in spite of perceiving low income and prestige, their professional knowledge matches their work both horizontally and vertically.

  • Issue Year: 32/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 85-106
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Hungarian
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