Tantárgycsoportok és tanáraik az OECD országokba
Subject-Based Similarities and Differences Between Characteristics of Teachers, in a Cross-National Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on subject-based characteristics of teachers’ in relation to their demographics, their contractual status, and also similarities and differences among teachers’ beliefs, attitudes and classroom practices; and there is a comparative perspective in that use is made of 23 countries. The analysis is based on data from the OECD’s first Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), which was done in 2008 among lower secondary education teachers and principals. Our main finding is that subject-based differences in teachers’ demographic features strongly connect with the issue of whether there is a (relative) lack of teachers in a place or not. Major contractual differences that were found to exist between countries – and within countries – could mainly be explained not by the subject taught but by a teacher’s age; and while data does reveal some country-specific characteristics relating to teachers’ attitudes and practices, no focal domain specificity can be seen in any one country.

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