Teaching as a career: A perspective from Hong Kong senior secondary students

Teaching as a career: A perspective from Hong Kong senior secondary students

• Lai, Kwok Chan Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Chan, Kwok Wai Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Ko, Kwok Wai Hong Kong Institute of Education
• So, Kwok Sang Hong Kong Institute of Education

Journal of Education for Teaching, 31(3), 153-168, 2005

Routledge

2005

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

Foreign Countries Income Career Choice Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 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.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 02607476

• 10.1080/02607470500168974

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/8106018d

2010-09-27