Browsing by Subject "opettajan ammatti"
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(2020)The purpose of this study was to examine in more detail the factors behind the inheritance of the teacher’s profession. This topic has been studied widely in Finland and abroad. The previous studies have shown that the teacher’s profession tends to inherit in the family. The information that one could have from the results, could be used for example in student counselling. The data was collected by sending a questionnaire via email to five teachers who are from families that include teachers. The questionnaire had nine questions which were based on previous studies and this thesis’ research problems. The previous studies that were used in this study were both Finnish and international. Thematizing was used as an analyzing method when questionnaires were analyzed. The Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on the method which was used to collect the data: originally it was planned to collect it via interviews but because of the pandemic the data had to be collected via questionnaire. As a conclusion in this study teacher occupation tends to inherit for example because of the support from the family and information about the occupation that is given by them. Being in a family that has other teachers has positive impacts, like for example common holidays. Knowing that occupations in families have an impact on a child's decision about education and future occupation, give student counsellors important information that they could use when working with the students.
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(2015)The purpose of this study is to find out why adults with a profession change career into teaching. This study also aims to find participates motives to perceive a career in teaching, their perceptions about teacher's profession and the reasons behind the career change. The research approach of this study was qualitative. Ten subjects, teachers and teacher students, participated in this study. Three of them were primary school teachers, one secondary school teacher and one vocational teacher. Five of the participates were teacher students, four of whom studied to be a special education teacher and one a primary school teacher. Nine of the participates were women and one man. The data was collected between years 2014-2015 using open, electric questionnaire. Questionnaire included background information about participates and eleven open questions. The data was processed using content analysis. Results that came up from this study were processed in regard to theories and earlier studies. According to this study the most important motives to become a teacher were the participates strong respect for teacher's profession. They felt that teacher's profession is significant and important in the society. Important motives were also the desire to work with children and adolescent and the possibility as a teacher to influence positively in children and adolescent's future. In this study the inner motives to perceive teaching as a career were more significant than the outer motives. As outer motives the participants mentioned benefits of the profession such as a long summer vacation, regular, family friendly working hours and academic education. Much more positive aspects were linked to teachers profession than negative aspects. Teachers profession was seen as important and significant in the society. Humanity, variability, diversity, creativity and the possibility to work with children and adolescents were seen as positive sides in teachers profession. Negative aspects in teachers profession were the society's demands for teachers, hurry, intensity and lack of resources. Participants changed career for many reasons. Student teachers motives to become a teacher have been studied for many decades. This study brings new, positive aspects to why older career changers with more life experience perceive career in teaching.
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(2023)Teaching profession and teacher education are valued in Finnish society. It’s been noticed that the popularity of teacher education is on the decline and society is discussing the teacher shortage. The aim of this thesis was to view student teachers’ views on teacher education and images of the teaching profession and school. The aim was to find out If there are differences between classroom teacher students’, early childhood education teacher students’, special education teacher students’ and subject teacher students’ views and images. Thesis material was collected using a ready-made questionnaire from the student teachers at the University of Helsinki as part of a research project called The attractiveness and retention of the teacher's work in the spring of 2023. 277 students answered the survey. Thesis was made using quantitative methods. Used meters were condensed by principal component analysis ja formed principal components’ mean dif-ferences between study tracks were explored by one-way analysis of variance. There are differences between the study tracks regarding views on teacher training. Subject teacher students saw the quality of teacher education and the employment situation of those who have graduated from teacher education as weaker than classroom teacher students and early childhood teacher students. Views on teacher education as an area of application pressure did not differ. There were also differences between the study tracks regarding the images of the teaching profession and the school. Early childhood education teacher students differed from classroom teacher students and subject teacher students regarding the challenges of the teaching profession and social factors as well as their own school experiences and career advancement opportunities. Classroom teacher students differed from subject teacher students in the images of the possibilities of the teaching profession. Opinions about the appreciation of the teaching profession and its change didn't differ. The results show that student teachers have many different views and images. Teacher education is a many-sided education, but all student teachers don’t see it equally positively. The teaching profession is made up of various factors and student teachers have many different images of the teaching profession. It is important to get information about the perceptions of future teachers when the challenges of education increase. However, the differences in views and images indicate that teacher education doesn’t give all student teachers the same understanding.
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