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Download full textAvgousti, Charalambos – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The study discovered why teachers around the world choose the Teaching profession and the factors affecting their choices. The study is meaningful to teacher education curriculum developers and teacher recruiters, for revealing the effects of teachers' perceptions on their career planning and professional growth. The findings from inferential…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, Performance Factors, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewedPapanastasiou, Constantinos; Papanastasiou, Elena – Educational Research and Evaluation (An International Journal on Theory and Practice), 1997
Factors that influenced 157 students at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and 176 at the University of Cyprus to become teachers were compared. The factor "internal motives" was the strongest factor that influenced students from PSU, whereas the most influential factors for students from Cyprus were "variety of benefits" and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Education Majors, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedPapanastasiou, Constantinos; Papanastasiou, Elena – Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, 1998
Identifies and compares the factors that have motivated 176 third-and fourth-year students at the University of Cyprus to choose the elementary school teaching profession. Six factors accounted for 63.3% of the variance: (1) internal motives; (2) job benefits; (3) status of the profession; (4) relatives' influence; (5) external motives; and (6)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Education Majors, Elementary Education
