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Sarah Manchanda; Travis Bristol; Phelton Moss – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2024
Despite existing recruitment and retention efforts, there has been a persistent underrepresentation of Black men teachers in the U.S. educator workforce. The present study employed a phenomenological approach to examine what motivated Black men (n = 27) to enter the teaching profession. We drew on the social-cognitive career theory (SCCT)…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Males, Career Choice, Decision Making
Ronnie P. McMillian – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Historically, the United States (U.S.) has led the world in the development of innovative high-tech solutions that increased employment opportunities, wages, productivity, and the economic growth of our nation. However, STEM workers are in great need to fill the millions of vacancies in the STEM workforce. Despite the increasing demand for STEM…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Information Technology, STEM Careers
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Matthew D. Curtner-Smith; Andrew Theodoulides; Anne Chappell; Elizabeth Harris; Gary D. Kinchin – European Physical Education Review, 2025
The purpose of this study was to describe the acculturation of six British physical education (PE) preservice teachers (PSTs). The research questions we sought to answer were: (a) What were the PSTs' values, beliefs, and perspectives regarding PE? and (b) What factors shaped the PSTs' values, beliefs, and perspectives during their acculturation?…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, College Students
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Jericho E. Padilla; Jerile Mae E. Casimiro; Carlo V. Amigable – Science Education International, 2025
This study examines senior high school students' awareness and integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within a Philippine STEM school context. Employing a quantitative descriptive design, the research used a structured survey to assess students' self-reported SDG knowledge, information sources, subject penetration, and the impacts…
Descriptors: High School Students, STEM Education, Sustainable Development, Objectives
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Rebecca J. S. Snell; Robert M. Klassen; Sophie Thompson-Lee; Hui Wang – European Journal of Education, 2025
The recruitment of undergraduate students in England into teacher education is a recognised challenge with recruitment targets having been missed in nine of the last 10 years. The recruitment shortfalls are most acute within STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. This qualitative study explores which aspects of teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Education, STEM Education
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Marina Garcia-Morante; Montserrat Castelló; Anna Sala-Bubaré – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of PhDs pursuing careers at the boundaries between academic and non-academic sectors, particularly with multiple transitions and dual appointments. However, the professional links that PhD holders pursuing non-academic careers maintain with academia and how these relate to different…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Career Choice, College Faculty, Knowledge Level
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Bian, Xinyi; Wang, Jia – European Journal of Training and Development, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this integrative literature review was three-fold: to explore the phenomenon of women's career interruptions as revealed by publications in the past two decades, to propose a new career decision tree model (CDTM) and to outline an agenda for future research. Design/methodology/approach: The authors adopted the integrative…
Descriptors: Females, Stopouts, Career Choice, Models
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Wicht, Alexandra; Miyamoto, Ai; Lechner, Clemens M. – Journal of Career Development, 2022
Previous research suggests that girls have higher occupational aspirations than boys before entering the labor market. We investigate whether this gender gap in occupational aspirations generalizes to secondary school students in Germany and illuminate the possible mechanisms behind these purported gender differences. For this purpose, we used a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Occupational Aspiration, Vocational Interests, Secondary School Students
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Costin, Yvonne; O'Brien, Michael P.; Hynes, Briga – Industry and Higher Education, 2022
The development of students' entrepreneurial confidence, aptitude and self-efficacy, irrespective of their discipline, is strongly advocated by researchers, policy makers and the media as an important societal institution, indispensable for economic growth and development, social cohesion, job creation and indeed the changing world of work. This…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Self Esteem, Aptitude, Self Efficacy
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Mars, Matthew M.; Moravec, Bryan G. – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2022
Purpose: Market forces and other external pressures have significantly transformed higher education over the past four decades. Research on the influence of cross-sector permeation on doctoral education has primarily focused on preparing and socializing students for academic careers that involve entrepreneurial activity. Conversely, PhD student…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Higher Education, STEM Education, Climate
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Korkmaz, Ozan; Kirdok, Oguzhan – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
The purpose of this research is to examine the predictive of career goal feedback and life goals on career adaptabilities. The research using the relational screening model, which is one of the quantitative research methods, was carried out on university students. The participants of the research group consist of 277 (175 women, 102 men)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Occupational Aspiration, Career Choice
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Ruiz-Rosa, Inés; Gutiérrez-Taño, Desiderio; García-Rodríguez, Francisco J.; Gil-Soto, Esperanza – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The present research focuses on an understudied field in the entrepreneurial process: the events that transform intention into effective entrepreneurial behavior. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper a comparative analysis, using the t-test on related samples, is made of the perceptions of these triggering events of a group of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Entrepreneurship, Career Choice
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Leech, Nancy L.; Haug, Carolyn A.; Rodriguez, Eleanor; Gold, Molly – Rural Educator, 2022
Retaining teachers is a problem in all districts but is especially difficult in rural areas. This survey research asked teachers in a western state to respond to open ended questions regarding their choice for teaching in a rural or urban area. Results indicate teachers work in a rural locale because they grew up in the area, already lived there…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Persistence, Educational Environment
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McKenzie, Sophie; Bennett, Dawn – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Despite continuous growth in the number of positions in Australia's Information Technology (IT) industry since 2015, only half of Australia's IT graduates go on to work in IT positions. A much-debated challenge for graduates is that the transition to work is complex and often demands several attempts. Less discussed is why school students choose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Career Choice, Vocational Interests
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Kristmansson, Per; Fjellström, Magnus – Vocations and Learning, 2022
In Sweden, upper secondary vocational education and training (VET) teachers must have high relevant vocational experience from a previous career, but 44% do not have a teaching certificate and thus are not formally qualified. However, there are significant differences between the 12 national VET programs in this respect. For example, 68 percent of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education Teachers, Career Change, Career Choice
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