Gender in the teaching profession : university studentsʼ views of teaching as a career

Tašner, Veronika (author), Žveglič Mihelič, Mojca (author), Mencin Čeplak, Metka (author)

The purpose of our research is to gain a better insight into what encourages young adults, in particular young women, to enter the teaching profession. The empirical part of the article is based on a pilot study including 132 students, with data collection being based on a survey approach using a questionnaire. The research attempts to address the context from which the desired characteristics of pre-service teachers with regard to their future employment arise. We have therefore tried to single out factors influencing the choice of teaching as a career, and to examine pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards the reputation of female and male teachers. The data obtained confirm the thesis that the predominance of women in the teaching profession(s) is an effect of the harmonisation of the female respondents’ habitus and their perception of the field they are entering. The perception of the teaching profession as a vocation (calling) that can be linked to the concepts of caring, giving and helping also proves to be very important. The data also confirms the thesis that the orientation towards life and work balance is important to our respondents of both genders.

• Language: English
• Keywords: gender, habitus, field, teaching as a career, vocation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education; FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2017
• Number of pages: Str. 47-69
• Numbering: Vol. 7, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-92611
• UDC: 37.091:305
• ISSN on article: 1855-9719
• DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.169
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11575113

Copyright

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• Publication date in RUL: 24.08.2017

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: CEPS journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies journal = revija Centra za študij edukacijskih strategij
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani = University of Ljubljana Press
• ISSN: 1855-9719
• COBISS.SI-ID: 252707584

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Spol in učiteljstvo : pogledi univerzitetnih študentk_ov na učiteljski poklic

Abstract

Namen naše raziskave je zagotoviti boljši vpogled v razloge, zaradi katerih se mladi odrasli, predvsem mlade ženske, odločajo za učiteljski poklic. Empirični del članka temelji na pilotni študiji, ki vključuje 132 študentk_ov pedagoške fakultete, podatki pa so zbrani s pomočjo vprašalnika. Z raziskavo smo poskušale analizirati, katere značilnosti bodočega poklica so za anketirane najbolj zaželene. S pomočjo tega smo poskušale identificirati dejavnike izbire učiteljskega poklica, posebej pa smo ugotavljale, kako respondentke_i percipirajo ugled učiteljic_ev. Rezultati so potrdili hipotezo, da je številčna prevlada žensk v učiteljskih poklicih učinek harmonizacije percepcije polja, v katerega stopajo respondentke (tj. učiteljskega poklica) s svojim habitusom. Pri tem se je kot posebej pomembna izkazala percepcija učiteljskega poklica kot poklicanosti, ki jo je mogoče povezati s koncepti skrbi, dajanja in pomoči. Rezultati potrjujejo tudi tezo, da je možnost usklajevanja zasebnega življenja in poklicnega dela pomembna za vse respondentke_e ne glede na spol.

• Keywords: vzgoja in izobraževanje, učitelji, razlike med spoloma, študije spolov, pogledi