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Varadharajan, Meera; Buchanan, John; Schuck, Sandy – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
Career changers form a substantial proportion of teacher education (TE) students. They bring a broader set of life and work experiences than do their younger, school-leaving counterparts. This paper investigates the needs and concerns of career change student teachers (CCSTs) in Australia. The study on which this article reports analysed survey…
Descriptors: Career Change, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Persistence, Altruism
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Buchanan, John – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
Considerable research has been conducted into teacher retention and attrition (Huberman, 1989; Dinham, 1995; Ewing & Smith, 2002). Little is known, though, of the circumstances of ex-teachers, in terms of factors such as salary, workload, working conditions and "job prestige". For this paper, telephone interviews were conducted with 22…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Student Attitudes, Teacher Persistence, Career Change