Reasons for Teaching and Mid-Term Career Predictions among Future Teachers
Reasons for Teaching and Mid-Term Career Predictions among Future Teachers

Summary/Abstract: At the start of their university studies, Romanian undergraduates have the opportunity to choose to participate into a training for the didactic career, complementary to their compulsory courses. For those who consider this choice, related psychological variables could worth to be known: their experiential pedagogical knowledge, representations about being teachers, life and career expectations, beliefs and hopes and so on. In this respect, the reasons or motivations to choose the didactic career and the predicted middle term professional future could shape the way of professional evolution of this subjects. These variables will be related with socio-demographic variables and also with students’ specialization domains. 323 undergraduates from 15 faculties of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi completed a questionnaire about their representations toward the didactic profession. We analyzed the subject’s responses about the reasons for become a teacher. Another analyze was made on the subjects’ short answers about their imagined middle term (ten years) professional future. The student shows various intrinsic and extrinsic reasons for teaching after graduating, and also a composite picture of their predicted professional future, somewhat unexpected considering their main specialization. According with study results, some theoretical and practical considerations were made.

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