| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理學系 === 85 === The purpose of of this study is to understand the phenomenon of career change among junior high school teachers, the factors that prompted their change, and the process of change.
This study adopts a qualitative approach, and the method is in-depth interview. Eighteen junior high school teachers who changed careers were interviewed. Data thus gathered were analyzed using the open-coding method.
The major findings are as follows:
1.The reasons for the teachers quiting previous jobs are the limited function the job role, poor teaching environment, lack of growth and challenge, negative perception and feelings about teaching, influence of associates, achievement motivation, shrinking of school size, financial needs and the desire to express oneself.
2.The factors that influenced choices of their new jobs are students, family and marriage responsibilities, work values, expertise and ability, perceived available opportunities, chances of promotion, job opening, support systems, open screening and advanced study.
3.The decision-making process of teachers'' career change is divided into eight stages: (1)thoughts of career change (2) exploration and trial (3)self-evaluation (4)confirmation of direction (5)action (6)taking on a new job or transferring within the educational organization (7)learning and adaptation (8)staying or leaving.
4.The results suggest that change in social environment such as business boom, educational policy, and the timing of the teachers receiving that higher degrees are the favorable moments of career change. Younger teacher are more likely to quit teaching or transfer to other levels. Teachers who are older or have taught more than ten years tend to change within the same levels.
5.Whether the junior high school teachers changed career depended on their personal needs and development tasks.
6.There are some similarities between the model developed by the author and that of decision-making by Tiedeman and O''Hara. Tiedeman and O''Hara''s model lacks investigation of decision-makers'' motivations, the model of the paper conforms to the part of Tiedeman and O''Hara''s but adds the motivational aspect.
Based of the above findings, discussions and suggestions for practical application and the future researcher are presented.
|
|---|
