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Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia; Devos, Geert – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
In an era of recurring teacher shortages, Flanders struggles with a considerable proportion of teacher education graduates who do not enter the teaching profession. This study identifies the predictors of teacher education graduates' choice on job entry (teaching profession or not). A prospective research design with two data collection phases is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Career Choice, Predictor Variables
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Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia; Devos, Geert; Vlerick, Peter – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This two-wave survey study aimed at testing a hypothetical model of teacher education graduates' decisions about whether or not to take a teaching position upon graduation. The model focuses on the relationship between teacher education and graduates' choice on job entrance. Using path analysis and logistic regression, this model was tested in a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Graduates
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Sabbe, Elien; Aelterman, Antonia – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
Internationally, both in popular and scientific media, debates occasionally emerge concerning the possible (negative) consequences of feminisation tendencies in the teaching staff. In these discussions, various assumptions about the "nature" of male and female teachers and masculinity and femininity are expressed. Male and female teachers are…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Styles, Educational Research, Sexual Identity
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Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia; Vlerick, Peter; Vermeulen, Katrien – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
This study aimed to gain insight into the relationship between teacher education and graduating teachers (not) starting in the teaching profession (n=209). Predictor variables referred to teacher education, integration into teaching, and teaching commitment. To examine interrelationships between these variables, factors were also interlinked to…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Graduates, Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness
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Schepens, Annemie; Aelterman, Antonia; Vlerick, Peter – Educational Studies, 2009
This article focuses on student teachers' professional identity formation inspired by the tension between two layman points of view namely: being born as a teacher (i.e. based on demographics and personality traits) and becoming a teacher (i.e. based on experience). Besides demographics, personality traits and experience, the teacher preparation…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Personality Traits, Professional Development, Identification (Psychology)
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Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia – Educational Studies, 2008
This study focuses on the relationship between teacher education and graduates' intended and actual entrance into teaching. Moreover, it explores how this relationship differs for two types of initial teacher training for secondary education. A hypothetical model of graduates' entrance into the teaching profession comprising empirically grounded…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Labor Market, Graduates, Intention
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Verhoeven, Jef C.; Aelterman, Antonia; Rots, Isabel; Buvens, Ina – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
In recent years, the perception in Flanders has been that teachers enjoy little or no esteem from the average citizen. On the basis of a representative sample of 982 Flemings between the ages of 18 and 71 years old, this article investigates whether or not this feeling is really present and what factors contribute to it. The following questions…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Social Status