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  • Mature age professionals: Factors influencing their decision to make a career change into teaching

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    Author(s)
    Bauer, Carmel
    Thomas, Sue
    Sim, Cheryl
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    Thomas, Sue A.
    Sim, Cheryl R.
    Bauer, Carmel
    Year published
    2017
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    This paper presents the early findings from a study that addresses the topic of mature age professionals making a career change into the secondary teaching profession by undertaking a postgraduate coursework initial teacher education program. The paper specifically addresses the factors that affect the decision for mature age professionals to make such a change. Education systems worldwide are encouraging mature age professionals to make a career change into secondary teaching to fill teacher shortages in specialist subject areas. However, the literature shows there has been little recent research about this aspect of mature ...
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    This paper presents the early findings from a study that addresses the topic of mature age professionals making a career change into the secondary teaching profession by undertaking a postgraduate coursework initial teacher education program. The paper specifically addresses the factors that affect the decision for mature age professionals to make such a change. Education systems worldwide are encouraging mature age professionals to make a career change into secondary teaching to fill teacher shortages in specialist subject areas. However, the literature shows there has been little recent research about this aspect of mature age career changers. The study on which this paper is based utilised a qualitative, narrative inquiry approach to explore the stories of mature age professionals who were making a career change into teaching. The paper focuses on the resonances across the stories of 17 mature age professionals as they outline the factors that influenced their decision to make a career change into teaching. The findings of this study would be of interest to educational policy makers and academic administrators responsible for the recruitment of mature age professionals into secondary teaching.
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    Journal Title
    Issues in Educational Research
    Volume
    27
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    http://www.iier.org.au/iier27/bauer.html
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    © The Author(s) 2017. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Education
    Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/340038
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