Why do individuals all over the world choose to become school teachers? What motivates
them to become educators of young people, and how committed are they to this cause when …

Who enters teaching and why are questions of immense social and political importance
throughout the world. This paper presents a scoping review of empirical studies, published …

Role models are often suggested as a way of motivating individuals to set and achieve
ambitious goals, especially for members of stigmatized groups in achievement settings. Yet …

This article addresses the characteristics, motivations and perceptions of teachers regarding
retention. The participants were practicing teachers in Australia. The survey included the …

The overreliance on quantitative methods in teacher motivation studies has limited our
understanding of the content and function of teachers' motivations. Through teacher …

In this study, the assumption that motivation is relevant for preservice teachers' engagement
to the profession is investigated using the Factors Influencing Teaching (FIT) Choice theory …

While there has been persistent interest in why people choose teaching as a career, until
recently, there was little agreement among researchers about how best to investigate the …

Future teachers have been found to exhibit different profiles of professional engagement
and career development aspirations (PECDA) even at the very outset of their teaching …

This paper reports on a comprehensive review of international evidence, synthesising the
findings of some of the strongest empirical work on the main factors influencing people's …

The purpose of this mixed methods study, within the altruistic, intrinsic, or extrinsic motives
framework, was conducted in order to document the motives of English as a foreign …