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Direct linkGubler, Martin; Eggenhofer-Rehart, Petra; Andresen, Maike; Mandel, Debbie; Mayrhofer, Wolfgang; Lehmann, Philip; Schleicher, Nanni Elisabeth; Schramm, Florian – Teacher Development, 2020
What a 'successful career' means to teachers is little understood, although this would allow schools and educational governance alike to support teachers' development, and to reduce their attrition. This study examines how 240 school teachers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland conceptualize career success, as compared to 185 health-care/social…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Success, Foreign Countries, Professional Personnel
Strebel, Alexandra – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Collective skill formation systems thrive if employers' skill needs are reflected in apprenticeship training programmes and firms offer apprenticeship positions. Occupation-level adaptation processes underpin these systems, which offer upper-secondary level vocational education leading to hundreds of occupations. Yet, it is considered challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Berger, Jean-Louis; Girardet, Céline – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
This study aimed to examine the links between motivation to become a teacher, sense of responsibility, and classroom management style. An adapted version of the Factors Influencing Teaching (FIT)-Choice scale, a translated version of the Teacher Responsibility scale, and a vignette instrument inspired by the Problems in School Questionnaire were…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Styles, Classroom Techniques
Güdel, Karin; Heitzmann, Anni; Müller, Andreas – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
The aim of this article is to report the results of an empirical study on adolescents' interest, self-efficacy, and vocational interest in technology and design. Following the expectancy-value model, we wanted to know how context-specific interest in technology and perceived self-efficacy in solving technical tasks are developed at lower…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Vocational Interests, Grade 7, Grade 8
Berger, Jean-Louis; Girardet, Céline – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: Potential teacher shortage and low esteem of vocational education and training (VET) educator profession, together with the importance of attracting individuals best suited for the profession, lead to concerns about the reasons why people become VET educators as a second career. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Motivation, Career Choice
Buschor, Christine Bieri; Kappler, Christa; Keck Frei, Andrea; Berweger, Simone – Gender and Education, 2014
The study examines the career decision-making of Swiss academic high school students opting for a career in a non-traditional, gender-typed area of work during the transition to higher education. Based on a longitudinal study, a qualitative study with 11 female students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and 13 male student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Career Choice, Decision Making
Download full textTate, William Knox – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
The demand grows constantly more urgent for the closer adaptation of schools to the needs of the communities in which they are located and by which they are supported. Some countries have succeeded in this better than others. Among those that have succeeded best are the Swiss Cantons. Believing that a careful study of the methods by which they…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Teaching Methods, Art Education, Elementary Schools
