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Direct linkVaradharajan, Meera; Carter, Don; Buchanan, John; Schuck, Sandy – Australian Educational Researcher, 2021
Career change student teachers enter teacher education programmes with different needs, capabilities and aspirations from those of their school-leaver counterparts. These differences come into stark contrast during professional experience, when student teachers spend extensive periods in schools as part of their teacher education programme. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Change, Student Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Varadharajan, Meera; Buchanan, John – Springer, 2021
This book examines the lives and contributions of career change teachers: individuals who have switched careers to become classroom teachers. Their leadership experiences, industry connections, ways of embedding real world applications in classroom teaching practices and diverse skills sets are investigated in the context of their contributions to…
Descriptors: Career Change, Experience, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
Varadharajan, Meera; Buchanan, John; Schuck, Sandy – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
Career changers form a substantial proportion of teacher education (TE) students. They bring a broader set of life and work experiences than do their younger, school-leaving counterparts. This paper investigates the needs and concerns of career change student teachers (CCSTs) in Australia. The study on which this article reports analysed survey…
Descriptors: Career Change, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Persistence, Altruism
Download full textBuchanan, John; Prescott, Anne; Schuck, Sandra; Aubusson, Peter; Burke, Paul; Louviere, Jordan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
The provision and maintenance of quality teachers is a matter of priority for the profession. Moreover, teacher attrition is costly to the profession, to the community and to those teachers who leave feeling disillusioned. There is a need to investigate the experiences of early career teachers to consider how these issues contribute to decisions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
Buchanan, John – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
Considerable research has been conducted into teacher retention. Less is known of ex-teachers' circumstances: salary, workload, working conditions, "job prestige". For this study, telephone interviews were used to ask 21 ex-teachers about their journey from teaching, and views on their current working conditions by comparison. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teaching Conditions
Buchanan, John – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
Considerable research has been conducted into teacher retention and attrition (Huberman, 1989; Dinham, 1995; Ewing & Smith, 2002). Little is known, though, of the circumstances of ex-teachers, in terms of factors such as salary, workload, working conditions and "job prestige". For this paper, telephone interviews were conducted with 22…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Student Attitudes, Teacher Persistence, Career Change
