Statements from teacher training-starts of one’s career: A teaching orbit

Abstract

The pensioned-off teachers of primary school made up their mind in the period of one and a half decades after the world war to go on for higher education at a training college of primary school teachers. Interviewing a diminishing number of eye-witnesses about the process of their becoming a primary school teacher is a pressing task of our current research into educational history which is not to be delayed. From among the basic kinds of interview we applied a structural interview in order to explore the motives of the choice of profession, the attitude towards the training institute of primary school teachers, the opinions about the training. On the grounds of the interviews we present the attitudes and experiences of those graduating at an institute training primary school teachers in a rather qualitative approach. During the analysis of the interviews the hypothesis was confirmed that one-time students already chose a profession with sense of vocation at the time of their choosing a career. They told about their teachers that they had taught and educated with committed professional expertise. The professional work of the institutes training primary school teachers was considered to be successful by every interviewed person without exception. The strengh of the one-time school type was thought to be the unity of theory and practice, the successfulness of practical training and the stressed methodical training. In the rememberance of all those interviewed there was a positive picture about the institutes training primary school teachers.