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ERIC Number: EJ1199291
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Dec
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1745-4999
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Career Choice Motives of Early Childhood Educators: A Cross-Country Comparison of Four European Countries
Weiss, Sabine; Syring, Marcus; Keller-Schneider, Manuela; Hellstén, Meeri; Kiel, Ewald
Research in Comparative and International Education, v13 n4 p499-515 Dec 2018
The present study compares career choice motives of future early childhood educators studying for a tertiary qualification. Suitable analyses of this kind are still missing. Diverging training systems, traditions and professional images in the different countries are related to certain motives. These motives are categorised according to a theory that is used as a theoretical framework. The study takes into account 468 student teachers from Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Romania and is methodologically based on variance analyses. Overall, intrinsic motives were found to be of greater significance. This applies equally to all countries. Furthermore, addressee-related motives are more pronounced among Swiss and German prospective early childhood educators than among those from Sweden or Romania. On the contrary, extrinsic motives have a stronger presence among Romanian student teachers. Income and prestige, as the only exceptions, are important for students from Sweden and Switzerland. The results are discussed referring to country-specific working conditions and the current status of professionalisation processes existing in problem areas.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education; Early Childhood Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden; Switzerland; Germany; Romania
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