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Erin Siostrom; Reece Mills; Terri Bourke – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
Ongoing shortages of quality teachers has prompted policy interest into career changers as potential solutions. Although Initial Teacher Education (ITE) comprises one-third career changers, little is known about this group. This paper presents a scoping review of career changers' motivations/decisions to choose teaching as a career. Themes from…
Descriptors: Career Change, Preservice Teachers, Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Gokhan Kilicoglu; Derya Kilicoglu; Young Ha Cho – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
This study is a comparative research investigating whether cultural competence of preservice teachers is causally related to their social justice and self-efficacy beliefs in Turkey, South Korea and the United States. The study group involved pre-service teachers from Turkey (n = 560), South Korea (n = 790) and the United States (n = 352). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Social Justice, Self Efficacy
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Paine, Lynn Webster – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
Teacher education exists today in a context of rapid globalization, which affects the systems in which future teachers will work, the governance of teachers' work, the students teachers will be teaching, as well as the policies, programs, curricula and students in teacher education itself. Several ideas recently have gained traction…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Global Approach, Definitions, Teacher Exchange Programs
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den Brok, Perry; Wubbels, Theo; van Tartwijk, Jan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
Based on a review of recent studies and reports, this research investigates attrition among beginning teachers in the Netherlands as well as reasons for teacher attrition, and compares the finding with studies on this topic conducted elsewhere in the world. The findings suggest that attrition among beginning teachers in the Netherlands with a…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Foreign Countries, Professional Identity
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Ahn, Ruth; Catbagan, Paula; Tamayo, Kristin; I, Ji Yeong; Lopez, Mario; Walker, Pamela – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study examines best practices in teaching mathematics to minority students through two case studies conducted at high-minority junior high schools in the USA and Japan. Observations, interviews, and conversations with the teachers in both countries focused on the research question: how do teachers successfully teach mathematics to minority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, Mathematics Instruction, Junior High School Students
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Taboada, Ana; Buehl, Michelle M. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
Given the increasing number of immigrant students in the USA initially schooled in Mexico, Central America, and South America, and the dearth of investigations examining the beliefs of teachers from Mexico, Central America, or South America, an exploration of Latin American teachers' conceptions may inform policy-makers and researchers about…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Investigations, Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation