Unpacking Preservice Teachers' Expectations to Eventually Leave Teaching

• In Event: 60.085 - Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: 60.085-1 - Division K Section 3 Poster Session 1

Abstract

Teacher attrition poses a real problem for high needs schools, so it seems ironic to seek out and train those individuals most likely to leave because they desire to do more. A rarely explored component of this problem is how desire forms—how the sense of yearning takes hold, or at least fails to disappear, during a teacher’s training. In this study I draw on a conception of desire to unpack pre-service teachers' indications that they do not see themselves teaching for very long.

Author

• Ian Renga, Western State Colorado University