Abstract
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to reveal the reasons why teacher candidates attending the faculties of education have preferred the teaching profession and the explanatory relations between those reasons. To this end, 801 students who are attending the elementary school teaching departments of 6 state universities were included in the research. Mercenary, altruistic, intrinsic, and extrinsic reasons that are effective with preferring the teaching profession are the latent variables of the research. The model developed to verify the relationships between those variables was tested. According to the findings, the intrinsic and altruistic latent variables have a highly positive relationship. The extrinsic variable has a negatively significant relationship with the intrinsic and altruistic variables, while a positively significant relationship with the mercenary variable. The mercenary latent variable has a positively significant relationship with all other variables.
Highlights
Choice of occupation is a process with which individuals encounter once or for multiple times in their lives and that results in quite important consequences
This study aims at investigating the level of relational structure between intrinsic, extrinsic, altruistic, and mercenary latent variables which are effective with the preference of teaching profession and confirm that relational structure as a model
Results of the measurement model test In the second phase of the research, the measurement model defined was tested so that the relationships between the factors which are thought to be effective with the preference of teaching profession
Summary
Choice of occupation is a process with which individuals encounter once or for multiple times in their lives and that results in quite important consequences. This process starts in childhood for some people, being continued resolutely in later years and concluded. Mustafa Akilli is an Assistant Professor Doctor in Primary Education in Faculty of Education in Uludag University. He received his PhD in science teacher education program at Atatürk University in 2012. His main research interests are science education, teacher education, environmental education, and 3D computer models
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