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Simonsz, Heleen; Leeman, Yvonne; Veugelers, Wiel – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
This study focuses on student teachers who are on the threshold of entering the teaching profession. The aim of this study is to examine their motivations for becoming teachers, their educational ideals and the meaningful experiences inside and outside teacher education that influenced their educational ideals. To examine these, we conducted a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Motivation, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Ping, Cui; Schellings, Gonny; Beijaard, Douwe; Ye, Juyan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
This survey study explores how teacher educators perceive relevant aspects of professional learning in their practice. These aspects were considered as important by teacher educators in a previous review study. A total of 583 Dutch and Chinese teacher educators completed a digital questionnaire regarding the content of teacher educators' learning,…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Teacher Educator Education, Relevance (Education)
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White, Simone; Murray, Jean; Goodwin, A. Lin; Kosnik, Clare; Beck, Clive – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Teacher educators are an occupational group who appear to suffer from an identity crisis. They do not seem to be able to agree on what their role or professional learning needs are. This situation has dire consequences for the next generation of teacher educators who enter the field in the same rather haphazard and ad hoc way as the ones before.…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Beginning Teachers, Mentors, Professional Identity
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Craig, Cheryl J. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2013
Four narrative fragments involving research disseminated globally -- namely, United States, Israel, The Netherlands, The People's Republic of China -- are used to instantiate the phenomenon of teachers teaching their best-loved selves, without becoming the curriculum themselves. Next, the development of the best-loved self-conceptualization as it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Self Concept, Teaching Methods
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van Geffen, Renske E.; Poell, Rob F. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
From all over the world there have been calls from governmental institutions to address a shortage of high quality teachers. As changing jobs generates new experiences, job mobility could be a way for teachers to adhere to the government's call to develop themselves into the teaching force needed. The research question of this study was: How do…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Mobility
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Fokkens-Bruinsma, Marjon; Canrinus, Esther T. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
This study examined the suitability of the FIT-Choice scale in a Dutch educational context among two cohorts of preservice teachers (Ns = 62, 89), surveyed at the end and the beginning of their one-year program respectively. The relationships between the motivations for becoming a teacher and concurrent commitment were examined, as well as the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teacher Attitudes