Many school employers struggle with teacher turnover challenges despite their use of wide-ranging teacher retention initiatives. Emphasizing a new Talent Centered Education Leadership approach, this article relies on a theory-building methodology that leverages the theories of career choice and Herzberg's motivation-hygiene, empirical literature…

This interview-based qualitative study is concerned with the recruitment of secondary teachers in Malawi. This study shows a range of perspectives for pursuing a teacher training course: failure to follow a desired career, springboard to other careers, to upgrade, and teaching out of vocation. It shows that trainee teachers held a range of images…

We analyse the role of educational choice on the degree of occupational segregation in Trinidad and Tobago during a period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we utilize waves of the Trinidad and Tobago labour force survey over the period 1991-2004. Our results show that…

In an era of teacher shortages, what would motivate individuals to become teachers when the demands on teachers are greater than ever and there are plenty of alternative occupations from which to choose? This paper presents the findings of a study of student teachers' motivations to be primary teachers and their commitment to teaching after their…

Criticisms voiced in recent national reports on education are summarized. Use of schools as immediate instruments of social change and expanding career expectations of women are cited as roots of acknowledged deficiencies. (MNS)

Presents profiles within the disciplines of neuroscience, mathematics, and chemistry characterizing how each field extends different atmospheres for women. Offers short reports on key issues that women face as they climb the career ladder, including the special problem of finding mentors. Mini-profiles of successful females and what it took for…

Presents study results analyzing the effects of a small scale internship program for undergraduate sociology majors on career choice. Concludes that even a small scale program makes a significant contribution to clarification of career choice for sociology majors. Suggests that internship provides information on occupations and reduces…

Information is provided on a developmental curriculum designed to correct gender bias in education by addressing contemporary needs of female students. The program, which is taught longitudinally for grades 5 to 12, is a career- and life-planning curriculum, and also includes boys for grades 5 to 8. (SW)

The predicted increase in geoscience careers and research opportunities is discussed. A growing environmental concern and the need to search for oil outside the Persian Gulf has led to an educational revitalization in this area. (KR)

Discusses definitions of "career" showing how the traditional concept is male oriented. Reports data from an eight-month study of women elementary school teachers that suggests the traditional ways of evaluating short- and long-term work commitments do not do justice to the reality of women's commitments. (MD)

Discusses the human dimensions of Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program learning about the relationship between engineering and public policy. Describes modes of engineering and government interaction. Presents the demographic data and current employment of students selected during the first 10 years of the program. (YP)

Examination of 30 mildly handicapped and 30 average high school students revealed that regular education students were more likely than special education students to be seriously involved in activities outside of schools. Sex differences were noted. Nonacademic activities provide an alternative path to achievement and self-esteem for low academic…

Examines the idea that introductory college courses should be magnets for recruiting and retaining science majors, not filters to discourage the "unfit." Discusses the possible relationship between the quality of instruction in college science and the number of students that drop out of science well into their college careers. (KR)

Research focused on two factors that may be influencing females in choice of careers. Factors are role-specific self-concept in science and self-perception in terms of stereotypical masculine and feminine characteristics. Logical ability and mathematics and science courses were also examined as factors in career choice. Results of data for 177…

Discussed is the image of the engineer as seen through popular fiction and film. The effects of these recent comic cultural caricaturization images of engineers upon young men and women making career choices are described. (KR)