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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,344 Views
13 Pages

Parental Perceptions of the Teaching Profession: Factors That Predict Parental Encouragement of Students to Enter the Teaching Profession

  • Steven Christensen,
  • Randall S Davies,
  • Ross A. A. Larsen,
  • Scott Harris,
  • Joseph Hanks and
  • Bryan Bowles

22 October 2022

This study examines factors that influence parent’s willingness to encourage their children to consider teaching as a career. Using structural equation modeling, we identified four factors that are highly predictive of a parent’s willingn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
8,359 Views
23 Pages

14 January 2023

Academic self-efficacy, academic amotivation, attitude toward the teaching profession, and classroom management anxiety are four of the most significant factors for both teacher training and performance because these psychological and behavioral cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,727 Views
24 Pages

Empirical evidence increasingly suggests that the attitudes of pre-service teachers (PSTs) toward the teaching profession (ATTP) are critical determinants of their professional identity, engagement, and collaborative behaviors. This study, guided by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,829 Views
14 Pages

18 January 2023

An in-school education placements is considered a crucial axis in the training of the future teacher. This first immersion in the school context allows interaction between theory and practice, contextualized learning of the profession and reflection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,901 Views
9 Pages

4 August 2023

Teachers’ view of the school is determinant for their action and condition of their activity and their professional development. This study focuses on the voice of teachers at community management schools in Guinea-Bissau in order to know the v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,284 Views
14 Pages

22 November 2022

The switch to online teaching that the global COVID-19 crisis necessitated has been discussed in many studies. Few papers, however, have investigated teachers’ perceptions and the self-initiated changes they made due to such a transition. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,272 Views
16 Pages

Enrollment in pre-service teacher education in Chile has dropped by 19% in the last year. To better understand the motivations and perceptions towards teaching among those students who could potentially become teacher candidates, we explored teaching...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,121 Views
17 Pages

13 September 2025

This study investigated shifts in preservice teachers’ perceived preparedness, readiness to engage in the profession, and teaching self-efficacy before and after a culminating field experience within a two-year, master’s level initial tea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,051 Views
20 Pages

30 June 2025

This study explored teacher agency and its impact on the motivation and perceptions of the teaching profession. This study employed a cross-sectional survey design, in which questionnaires were administered to a sample of 574 basic school teachers in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
298 Views
13 Pages

15 December 2025

This study analyzes the profile of candidates enrolling in Alternative Certification Programs (ACP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina—specialized programs in pedagogical, psychological, didactic, and methodological education for graduates of non-teachi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,632 Views
20 Pages

17 March 2023

The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the coming years is a very important milestone for the sustainability of the planet. In order to achieve these objectives, it is essential that current students, who will be the workers o...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,703 Views
26 Pages

A Systematic Review of Integrated Learning Definitions, Frameworks, and Practices in Recent Health Professions Education Literature

  • Davina Matinho,
  • Marisa Pietrandrea,
  • Carlos Echeverria,
  • Ron Helderman,
  • Madison Masters,
  • Daniel Regan,
  • Samuel Shu,
  • Rafael Moreno and
  • Douglas McHugh

28 February 2022

International curricular redevelopment and quality improvement efforts include integration within and across disciplines as a focal point. Definitions and applications of the term ‘integration’ vary routinely in health professions educati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,523 Views
18 Pages

10 May 2022

With the ongoing digital transformation, accountants will need a more technological profile and greater mastery of transversal skills. In this context, higher education institutions (HEIs) assume a fundamental role, as they must adapt the teaching me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,251 Views
22 Pages

The Why of the Teaching Profession: Validation of a Structural Model of Teacher Motivations

  • Eligia Rosa Rodríguez-Rivero,
  • Antonio Francisco Rodríguez Hernández,
  • Carmen Mercedes Hernández-Jorge and
  • Isabel Duarte-Lores

9 August 2023

The aim of this work was to validate an empirical model that integrates the different motivational categories that explain the decision to become a teacher. This work provides empirical evidence of the psychometric quality of the instrument used, CUM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,519 Views
15 Pages

8 March 2024

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic proved challenging for people working and teaching in the health professions. What was it like to learn or teach in the health professions during the pandemic? What challenges were experienced, and how were these navigated?...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,337 Views
13 Pages

12 March 2020

There is a growing interest in the study of active methodologies, especially cooperative learning. It will allow for skills related to the positive interdependence between the components of a group, individual responsibility, the encouragement of int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,629 Views
12 Pages

Teacher Recruitment: Factors That Predict High School Students’ Willingness to Become Teachers

  • Steven S. Christensen,
  • Randall S. Davies,
  • Scott P. Harris,
  • Joseph Hanks and
  • Bryan Bowles

28 November 2019

This study examines factors that influence high school students’ willingness to consider teaching as a career. Using predictive modeling, we identified five factors that are highly predictive of a students’ willingness to consider teachin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
367 Views
21 Pages

12 November 2025

This study aims to identify the most significant characteristics of non-university teaching staff within the general system in Spain who participate in non-traditional tasks outside the school and the classroom within the educational field. An explor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
265 Citations
47,943 Views
13 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic forced K–12 school closures in spring 2020 to protect the well-being of society. The unplanned and unprecedented disruption to education changed the work of many teachers suddenly, and in many aspects. This case study exam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,934 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2024

Universities play a pivotal role in knowledge production and in transforming teaching methodologies across various subjects. This research is a case study detailing the pedagogical implementation of a game-based methodological approach in a dual-degr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,012 Views
14 Pages

Detrimental Effects of Disempowering Climates on Teaching Intention in (Physical Education) Initial Teacher Education

  • Ginés David López-García,
  • Antonio Granero-Gallegos,
  • María Carrasco-Poyatos and
  • Rafael Burgueño

Previous research has looked at the positive consequences generated by teacher-generated climates on the motivational experiences of pre-service teachers. However, there is scant research focusing on the adverse motivational consequences that affect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,402 Views
17 Pages

7 January 2025

This study compares religious education and pedagogy programs in theology faculties in Türkiye in their 100th year with similar programs in different countries. Although Türkiye historically has a deep-rooted heritage, it has experienced co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,434 Views
11 Pages

24 September 2019

Education, be that on a moral, social or intellectual level, in a formal setting or via lived experience is Bildungsroman’s raison d’être. ‘Moments of crisis’ and the resultant demonstration of the journey towards awaren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,419 Views
11 Pages

20 November 2023

The present quantitative, non-experimental comparative study, delves into the long-term effects of the collaborative practicum model (specifically the “academy-class” model) on novice teachers. The research aims to discern disparities in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,129 Views
12 Pages

In Switzerland, teacher education comprises a single phase of training, with students entering the profession directly after graduation. New teachers face challenges that they do not experience during training. Therefore, it is crucial that they rece...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,431 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2023

During the shift to online remote learning at the height of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, a group of researchers administered a qualitative survey with a desire to hear teacher voices. Responses were received from many areas of the world from educ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,483 Views
13 Pages

The profession that creates all other professions has been subject to much debate in recent years. Largely invisible at times, teacher educators have recently been visible mainly in the negative headlines which have surrounded attempts to disrupt thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
444 Views
19 Pages

Black Undergraduates’ Perceptions of the Costs and Benefits of K-12 Teaching

  • Tara Marie Brown,
  • Tifanee Michele McCaskill and
  • Carla Dee Blackwell

21 November 2025

This article examines how 15 Black undergraduates at a public, flagship university in the U.S. perceived the costs and benefits of pursuing a K-12 teaching career. Participants expressed an interest in teaching but were pursuing non-education majors....

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,947 Views
9 Pages

The Changing Face of Veterinary Professionalism—Implications for Veterinary Education

  • Stuart Gordon,
  • Tim Parkinson,
  • Stacey Byers,
  • Kerri Nigito,
  • Adria Rodriguez,
  • Catherine Werners-Butler,
  • Jaelene Haynes and
  • Talia Guttin

9 February 2023

Veterinary professionals need to maintain currency with the rapidly expanding knowledge, techniques, and diagnostic skills available to the profession, while also accommodating the developing needs and expectations of clients and other veterinary sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
482 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2025

Contemporary issues of particular concern include the current state of the teaching profession, the lack of professional and social respect for teachers, the need for salary increases, the need to reduce the burden on teachers, and performance evalua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,409 Views
16 Pages

Older Physical Education Teachers’ Wellbeing at Work and Its Challenges

  • Henry Lipponen,
  • Mirja Hirvensalo and
  • Kasper Salin

This article examines older physical education (PE) teachers’ wellbeing over the course of their career in Finland. The study highlights challenges to physical and mental functioning as well as how teachers respond to these challenges. The six...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,094 Views
14 Pages

The health care system is increasingly complex and specialized, but it presents the actors involved with the challenge of working together in interprofessional teams. One way to meet this challenge is through interprofessional training approaches, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,514 Views
15 Pages

Courage to Create: A New Music Education Degree in Instrumental and Vocal Teaching

  • Ernest H. C. Lim,
  • Rebecca Y. P. Kan and
  • Nellie S.-R. Seng

16 March 2024

As a special partnership that offers a unique way to strengthen the arts and cultural developments in Singapore, a new curriculum was offered to prepare students for instrumental and vocal teaching careers, with a focus on pedagogical instruction and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,558 Views
21 Pages

16 August 2024

This longitudinal qualitative inquiry delves into the experiences of three novice teachers in the United States. Over the first four years of their teaching career, participants were interviewed multiple times, during which they created artifacts to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,073 Views
17 Pages

Teaching is amongst the six professions with the highest stress levels and lowest job satisfaction, leading to a high turnover rate and teacher shortages. During the pandemic, teachers and school principals were confronted with new regulations and te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,576 Views
16 Pages

Transformation of Higher Education: Discussion of the Dimensions, Trends and Scenarios of Change in Ibero-America

  • Manuel Fernández Cruz,
  • Borja Fernández García Valdecasas,
  • Lucas Muñoz López and
  • Slava López Rodríguez

World conferences on higher education have reported the effect of social changes on university systems. Particularly, changes that induce a transformation in the academic profession. Here, we study the paradigm shift of the profession in its dimensio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
17,004 Views
14 Pages

12 April 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a leading technology in the digital transformation. AI is expected to cause job losses in general, initially in professions associated with routine activities, and subsequently in the field of creative professions. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
277 Views
21 Pages

17 December 2025

The importance of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is recognised by Australian governments and significant reforms are being implemented to increase access to high-quality ECEC. Whilst increased recognition and access are vital, so are strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,703 Views
10 Pages

13 January 2023

Modern education increasingly focuses on interweaving drama as an integral part of pre-school education. Given that teachers’ self-efficacy in meeting expected tasks tends to stabilize over time and is grounded in their success and failure expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,907 Views
18 Pages

Burnout and Self-Perceived Instructional Competence: An Exploratory Study of a Group of Italian Female Elementary School Teachers

  • Monica Pellerone,
  • Venerando Rapisarda,
  • Maria Chiara Antonietta Trischitta,
  • Ermanno Vitale and
  • Tiziana Ramaci

Since the first half of the 1980s, burnout in teachers has been the object of particular attention by many international authors. Teachers are subject, more than other professions, to numerous and heavy pressures, covering the peculiarity of the prof...

  • Article
  • Open Access
602 Views
12 Pages

Background: Interprofessional education in the healthcare sector is becoming increasingly recognized in Germany; it is increasingly being included in the curriculum. The learners are usually the focus of the research. This study focusses on the teach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,172 Views
10 Pages

23 April 2024

This article endeavors to investigate the impact of three years of teaching experience acquired during student teaching training on the professional identity of aspiring educators. The ensuing literature review expounds upon the concepts of identity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,717 Views
16 Pages

Predictors of Academic Achievement among Physical Education and Sports Undergraduate Students

  • Ertuğrul Şahin,
  • Resul Çekin and
  • İlknur Yazıcılar Özçelik

28 January 2018

Although a number of studies have attempted to determine the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of students’ academic performance, there are few studies in the literature that examine the correlates of academic achievement for physical educati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,384 Views
13 Pages

12 August 2021

This paper reports on a longitudinal case study of a Hong Kong early career ESL (English as a second language) secondary teacher, Joyce (pseudonym), who experienced different stages of personal–professional development over seven–eight years (August...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,351 Views
14 Pages

Teachers’ Professional Digital Competence

  • Ilka Nagel and
  • Synnøve H. Amdam

Teachers’ professional digital competence (PDC) refers to digital competence specific to the teaching profession. PDC serves a dual purpose: it encompasses a range of instrumental, professional, ethical, critical, and epistemic dimensions relat...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,349 Views
8 Pages

Pharmacy practice is changing to accommodate the need for pharmacists to be better team members in newly emerging collaborative care and integrated health systems. Pharmacy schools could lead this change by educating students to be effective particip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,923 Views
14 Pages

Construction of Teacher Professional Identity through Initial Training

  • Marcela Casanova-Fernández,
  • Jorge Joo-Nagata,
  • Emily Dobbs-Díaz and
  • Tricia Mardones-Nichi

17 November 2022

The construction of a professional identity is a key element in the transition to the teaching profession, which begins its development at the initial training, especially during professional training courses. Purpose: This article collects the exper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,149 Views
14 Pages

This article examines the phenomenon whereby ‘professionalism’ is used as a concept in higher education (HE), specifically regarding HE’s relationships with professions in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,890 Views
16 Pages

3 March 2021

With the rapid increase in the number of students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language (CSL/CFL), there is a great demand for Chinese language teachers. Although many teacher preparation programmes have been established, only a few gradua...

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