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Schaefer, Lee; Hennig, Lauren; Clandinin, Jean – Teaching Education, 2021
Early career teachers continue to flee the profession in many countries around the world. In a series of our own studies, we have attempted to better understand the intentions of early career teachers. In this paper, we build on themes that emerged in a 2015 study, published in Teaching Education, with 40 second- and third-year teachers, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover
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Schaefer, Lee; Clandinin, D. Jean – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
In this paper, we focus on questions around who we are as teacher educators as well as our responsibilities in helping pre-service teachers compose forward-looking stories as they prepare to begin teaching. We draw on the results of two studies in this paper: one a semi-structured interview study with 55 second- and third-year teachers in two…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Responsibility
Schaefer, Lee; Downey, C. Aiden; Clandinin, D. Jean – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2014
We began this research by asking questions about the high number of teachers who leave teaching in their first five years of teaching. The literature on early career teacher attrition (Borman & Dowling, 2008; Guarino, Santibanez & Daly, 2006; Macdonald, 1999; Smith & Ingersoll, 2004) left us with wonders around the experiences of…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Burnout, Beginning Teachers
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Clandinin, D. Jean; Long, Julie; Schaefer, Lee; Downey, C. Aiden; Steeves, Pam; Pinnegar, Eliza; McKenzie Robblee, Sue; Wnuk, Sheri – Teaching Education, 2015
Early career teacher attrition has most often been conceptualized as either a problem associated with individual factors (e.g. burnout) or a problem associated with contextual factors (e.g. support and salary). This study considered early career teacher attrition as an identity making process that involves a complex negotiation between individual…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Semi Structured Interviews, Working Hours
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Schaefer, Lee; Long, Julie S.; Clandinin, D. Jean – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2012
In this paper, we consider scholarly work on early career teacher attrition, and retention, from 1999 to 2010. Much of the literature has framed attrition as either a problem associated with individual factors (e.g., burnout), or a problem associated with contextual factors (e.g., support and salary). Some recent conceptualizations consider early…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Beginning Teachers, Literature Reviews
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Long, Julie S.; McKenzie-Robblee, Sue; Schaefer, Lee; Steeves, Pam; Wnuk, Sheri; Pinnegar, Eliza; Clandinin, D. Jean – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2012
Early career teacher attrition is a matter of economic, social, and educational concern in many countries. Usually induction programs, including mentoring, are seen to alleviate the problem of early career teacher attrition. Mentoring/induction programs as a solution to what is defined as the problem of early career teacher attrition and retention…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Literature Reviews