There is a plethora of scholarship concerning the lack of academic achievement among Black males in the United States. Within higher education, this lack of achievement is represented as the difficult matriculation of Black males through their undergraduate experience and their lack of representation in the doctoral pipeline. The lack of…

Against the background of differing admission selectivity, structure, and status of teacher education in Denmark and Finland, we analyze the extent to which beginning teacher education students differ with respect to previous educational pathways, socio-demographic characteristics, academic self-concepts, and occupational motivations. In both…

Recruiting high-caliber individuals into education programs in higher education institutions to train them to be tomorrow's educators/teachers has been a perennial challenge. Students in education programs are found to be in general lower in academic standing than their counterparts in other fields, reflecting a seemingly distressing phenomenon of…

The concept of the "professional teacher" is highly contestable, and the array of definitions that circulate in teacher education draw on competing theoretical and ideological positions. This paper explores what discourses about professionalism are currently available within Norwegian physical education teacher education (PETE) and, in…

These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the 5th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2017 (ICEduTech 2017), which has been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Western Sydney University, held in Sydney, Australia, 11-13 December 2017. ICEduTech is…

Many urban districts in the United States have difficulty attracting and retaining quality teachers, yet they are often the most in need of them. In response, U.S. states and districts are experimenting with financial incentives to attract and retain high-quality teachers in high-need, low-achieving, or hard-to-staff urban schools. However,…

The major purpose of this study was to develop guidelines for a teacher recruitment program for use in agricultural education at Kansas State Universitiv. To determine current methods and practices of recruitment in the central region, a survey was conducted of teacher educators and state supervisors, coordinators of agriculture programs in Kansas…

This paper discusses issues in the recruitment, retention, and training of Native college students as teachers and school administrators. The number of Native educational professionals serving schools for Native students is extremely small, and there is evidence that even this number is declining relative to the increasing Native school…

Current college faculty have little internal motivation to learn how to teach, their interests and rewards lying in the other domains for which their personalities, education, and training have prepared them. Students who have the potential to be good teachers do not see teaching as a feasible career, while good researchers do. (MLW)

IN THE FACE OF DECREASING NUMBERS OF STUDENTS PREPARING TO TEACH VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE IN THE LAND-GRANT INSTITUTIONS AND THE INCREASING DEMAND FOR VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE TEACHERS, A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE SOURCE OF PAST AND PRESENT AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION STUDENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM STUDENT FILES ON 554…

The first half of this detailed guide on Teacher Corps recruiting, designed for the use of school administrators, presents all procedures necessary for an effective college campus recruiting program. Included are sections on planning the approach; forming a recruiting team of teacher interns; laying out an interesting schedule (with time…

Examines background factors of nineteenth-century education, especially the development of systematic training for elementary school mistresses, and social class. Concentrates on Whitelands College's recruitment of future teachers with reference to their social class. (NH)

Examines the effects of job and organization attributes, applicant characteristics, and recruiter characteristics on job applicant attraction to an elementary school teaching position. Forty-eight university education majors (24 with teaching experience and 24 without prior teaching experience) role played the part of job applicant for an…

This study begins with a short history of minority educational experience on white college campuses. In recent years many colleges and universities have enrolled black students. The focus of this study is on a model recruitment program for training non-white elementary school teachers at Concordia College, St. Paul, Minnesota. Data for the study…