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Equity Dispositions and Reasons for Entering the Profession: Preservice Teachers in Romania and the United States

Sun, April 27, 8:00 to 9:30am MDT (8:00 to 9:30am MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 110

Abstract

We use factor analytic and multiple regression techniques to examine relationships between the reasons preservice teachers enter the profession and three equity dispositions: social awareness, advocacy for students, and meekness. We compare these relationships across preservice teachers in Transylvania, Romania (n=295) and in the Intermountain West of the US (n=245). We find altruistic and intrinsic reasons for entering the profession are highly predictive of equity dispositions in both contexts, especially for meekness. In the US, political ideology was more predictive of social awareness than in Romania; in Romania, some extrinsic reasons for entering the profession were negatively predictive of equity dispositions (though not in the US). We discuss study limitations and implications for education practice, policy, and research.

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