ERIC Number: EJ756897
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-May
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-051X
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How Young Teachers Experience Their Professional Work in Chile
Avalos, Beatrice; Aylwin, Pilar
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, v23 n4 p515-528 May 2007
This paper presents results from a qualitative study of 15 neophyte teachers in Chile who were part of a survey of 242 teachers in two geographical regions of the country. They were studied on the basis of questionnaires, interviews, observations and focus groups, all of which served to examine their teaching contexts and working conditions, how they recalled beginning to teach and its problems, their views about their profession and their work at the time of the study. The findings show interesting variations to those themes identified in the literature such as building of professional identity, their socialisation into schools, the relative weights of initial teacher education and experience, and the lack of support as they begin to teach.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Surveys, Qualitative Research, Teaching Conditions, Educational Environment, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Experience, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Socialization
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Chile
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