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Direct linkSantoro, Ninetta – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2015
In response to increasing cultural diversity within student populations in Australia as well as Britain, Europe and North America, there have been ongoing calls to diversify the teaching profession. Such a strategy is based on assumptions that teachers who are of ethnic and racial minority are well placed to act as role models for minority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Diversity (Faculty), Diversity (Institutional)
Santoro, Ninetta; Snead, Suzanne L. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
Over the past thirty years universities have increasingly extended their offerings of vocationally oriented degrees and have recruited into academe, practitioners from the professions. This paper reports on a qualitative study that investigated the experiences of 20 professionals-turned-academics in Australia; their expectations of academe and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Role, Teaching (Occupation)
Santoro, Ninetta – Gender and Education, 2010
This article draws upon data from semi-structured interviews with Australian Indigenous teachers to explore the role their mothers played in shaping their decisions to become teachers. The findings suggest that their mothers' emotional involvement and investment in their sons' and daughters' education generated significant reserves of emotional…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Indigenous Populations, Mothers, Daughters
Santoro, Ninetta; Pietsch, Marilyn; Borg, Tracey – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
This article reports on a qualitative small-scale case study that investigated what pre-service teachers learned from a former generation of teachers about the context and nature of teaching and teacher education during the 1950s and 1960s. Data comprised semi-structured interviews and a grounded theoretical approach was used to analyse the data.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Beginning Teachers, Grounded Theory, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewedSantoro, Ninetta – Studies in Continuing Education, 2003
From part of a larger study, interviews and observations of three Australian adult educators in the vocational education sector showed that those with work histories as teachers resisted discourses positioning them as trainers. They understood teaching and training as diametric opposites, a rigid position that may be counterproductive to…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Role of Education
Santoro, Ninetta; Reid, Jo-Anne – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2006
This paper reports on the findings of a four-year study that seeks to understand the experiences and career pathways of Indigenous teachers in Australia. We present data obtained from in-depth interviews with current and former teachers in order to provide a qualitative account of what lies behind demographic trends in Indigenous teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Case Studies, Teaching Experience
