Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ548319
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Teaching as a Profession and as a Career: Minority Candidates' Perspectives.
Su, Zhixin
Teaching and Teacher Education, v13 n3 p325-40 Apr 1997
This study examined minority and mainstream teacher candidates' views on teaching as a profession and career. Interviews and surveys indicated that both groups were concerned with professional status, proud of becoming teachers, and worried about teaching conditions. Minority students were more affected by the low professional status of teaching in making career decisions. (SM)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Minority Group Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Recognition, Secondary School Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Teaching (Occupation)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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