Four reasons for becoming a teacher educator
- We developed a new survey instrument to investigate teacher educators? motives for entering the profession and examined the associations between motives and job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion in both teachers and teacher educators. Using data from 145 teacher educators instructing in-service teachers, we identified four motives: career aspirations, social contribution, escaping routines, and coincidence. While escaping routines represents a ?push? factor associated with emotional exhaustion in teachers, career aspirations represent a ?pull? factor associated with job satisfaction in teacher educators. The instrument can be used as a self-assessment tool for the recruitment of teacher educators. ? 2021 The Authors.
| Author details: | Eric RichterORCiDGND, Rebecca LazaridesORCiDGND, Dirk RichterORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103322 |
| ISSN: | 0742-051X |
| ISSN: | 1879-2480 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Teaching and teacher education : an international journal of research and studies |
| Subtitle (English): | a large-scale study on teacher educators' motives and well-being |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/06/01 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2023/01/09 |
| Tag: | Career change; Emotional exhaustion; Motives; Professional development; Teacher educator; Well-being |
| Volume: | 102 |
| Article number: | 103322 |
| Number of pages: | 9 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Bildungswissenschaften / Department Erziehungswissenschaft |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
