Understanding career choice motivations: a case study of public school teacher candidates in Singapore

International Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/12294659.2022.2123291

Kai Xiang Kwa, Soojin Kim

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ABSTRACT In response to the rapidly-changing global market, Singapore has started to pay greater attention to educating students to become active and informed citizens with the high-level soft skills needed for the 21st century. This inspired us to examine how the government can effectively recruit a sustained and sufficiently large cohort of potential teachers with high levels of passion and self-efficacy to teach the humanities and social studies (HSS) to today’s young generation. Based on semi-structured interviews with teacher candidates who aim to become HSS secondary school teachers in Singapore, we found that their motivations are shaped not only by fundamental vocational and material forces, but also by various non-material, social and cultural forces, which might build up over time. Particularly, not to mention the values embedded in the HSS, individual trainees’ prior experiences with learning and teaching, their so-called socialization influences from former teachers and/or co-curricular activities, have played a critical role in their goal orientation.

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理解职业选择动机:新加坡公立学校教师候选人的个案研究

为了应对快速变化的全球市场，新加坡开始更加重视教育学生成为具有21世纪所需的高水平软技能的活跃和知情的公民。这激发了我们去研究政府如何有效地招募一支持续的、足够大的、具有高水平激情和自我效能感的潜在教师队伍，向今天的年轻一代教授人文与社会研究(HSS)。基于对新加坡立志成为HSS中学教师的教师候选人的半结构化访谈，我们发现他们的动机不仅受到基本的职业和物质力量的影响，还受到各种非物质、社会和文化力量的影响，这些力量可能随着时间的推移而积累。尤其是，更不用说HSS中所包含的价值观，学员个人之前的学习和教学经历，他们从以前的老师和/或课外活动中受到的所谓社会化影响，在他们的目标定位中起着至关重要的作用。

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期刊介绍： The International Review of Public Administration (ISSN 1229-4659) is published biannually by the Korean Association for Public Administration (KAPA) to provide a worldwide audience with the opportunity for communication and further understanding on issues of public administration and policy. There will be a triple-blind peer review process for all submissions of articles of general interest. There are no particular limitations on subject areas as long as they are related to the field of public administration and policy or deal with public employees. Articles should be analytic and demonstrate the highest standards of excellence in conceptualization, craftsmanship, and methodology.