Appointment and Induction of a New Staff Member in an Institution of Initial Teacher Education (Case Study in Austria)

Abstract

Summary The following case study on the appointment and induction of a new staff member in a State College of Teacher Education (Taedagogische Akademie,) in Austria is structured in four parts. The first part will describe main conditions for an appointment in a centralised school system, in which most elements of an appointment are regulated by law. Some information will be given about the institution where the data for the case study have been collected. The following two parts will present the views of a senior academic/head of a department of an institution of teacher education and that of a newly appointed teacher educator, who will work within teacher education for 75% of the time as a teacher in a training/experimental school (Uebungsschule) and 25% as a teacher educator in subject methodology. Some conclusions will be presented within a final part.