Journal Articles
Teaching as a career: A perspective from Hong Kong senior secondary students
- Teaching as a career: A perspective from Hong Kong senior secondary students
- Journal of Education for Teaching, 31(3), 153-168, 2005
- Routledge
- 2005
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Secondary Education
- This study examined the views of teaching as a career choice held by Hong Kong students in their final year of upper secondary school (Secondary Seven). Significant differences were found between students' interest in teaching and demographic characteristics such as gender, religious beliefs, household income and parents' education levels, as well as their public examination scores and streams of study. Three attractive and three deterrent factors were identified among the reasons influencing students' choice of teaching as a career, respectively. Among 20 listed occupations, teaching was ranked relatively high by the students both as the occupation they 'most wanted' and 'most respected'. The paper discusses the implications of these findings and draws conclusions which may be helpful to teacher education providers and policy makers on measures to recruit prospective students to initial teacher education. [Copyright of Journal of Education for Teaching is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02607470500168974]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 02607476
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/8106018d
- 2010-09-27
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