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Al-Khayat, Amjad; Al Khatib, Amal Jamal; Al-Rousan, Ayoub Hamdan – Curriculum and Teaching, 2023
Prospective teachers' attitudes towards teaching are grounded in their experiences of successes and failures as students. Thus, addressing their attitudes towards teaching before starting their profession is strategic. To this aim, this study explored Jordanian prospective kindergarten teachers' attitudes towards the teaching profession.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Kindergarten, Teaching (Occupation)
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Woods, Bobbi; Miller, Cindy Faith; Wheeler, Lorey A.; Reisslein, Martin – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study examined the association between elementary students' (N = 1627; 51.3% girls, ages 4-12) engineering-related ability beliefs (competence), task-value beliefs (interest, importance), and career aspirations. Findings suggest that mean levels of children's engineering-related beliefs did not vary by gender. High levels of competence,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Engineering, Beliefs, Academic Achievement
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Howard, Kimberly A. S.; Walsh, Mary E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
Children's conceptions of career choice and attainment were evaluated in two studies to test whether reasoning levels varied by grade level (Studies 1 and 2) and perspective-taking complexity (Study 2). Results indicated that younger children (Grade K) were more likely to use reasoning strategies associated with fantasy and magical thinking and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Careers, Kindergarten, Young Children
Kung, Chih-Chin – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the comparison between American and Taiwanese parents' views on their young children learning a second/foreign language, the ideal language and learning age, and parents' perceptions regarding language. There were 24 U.S. and 44 Taiwanese participants who had at least one child studying in the day-care…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten