The aim of this study was to explore gender differences in motivation for choosing teaching as a profession and perceptions of men's demotivation for the choice of this profession. 279 preservice ...subject teachers from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, filled in the FIT-Choice Scale (Watt and Richardson, 2007) and the Demotivation of Men for Teaching Career Choice Scale. Results revealed that, regardless of their gender, preservice subject teachers were primarily motivated by the intrinsic and social utility values of teaching, while specific gender differences imply the importance of the role of social factors in men's choice of this career. Low status of the teaching profession was perceived as the dominant reason for demotivation of men to choose it. Women were more likely than men to assume that men are demotivated to choose teaching because it is a "women's profession". Policy implications of findings on men's (de)motivation for teaching are discussed.
Numerous interventions in the school environment focus on supporting empathy to prevent aggressive behaviour. But when planning interventions inside classrooms one needs to consider the context of ...each specific classroom, e.g., relationships between students and teachers. Based on the Developmental System Theory and Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Model, this study examines the mediating effect of the positive and negative student-teacher relationships on the relationship between empathy (cognitive and emotional components) and aggression. We use a randomised sample of 539 students from two countries (Slovenia:
N
= 271,
M
= 12.91 years, 56.3% female; Croatia:
N
= 268,
M
= 13.60 years, 47.4% female). We measure empathy with the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, aggression with the AG-UD Aggression Scale and student-teacher-relationships with the Perceived Quality of Student-Teacher Relations measures. The findings show that empathy plays an important role in aggression, but interestingly, the component is different in the two countries. In Slovenia, there is a significant negative direct path from the cognitive component of empathy,
Perspective taking
, to aggression, while in Croatia, there is a similar path, but starting from the emotional component of empathy,
Empathic concern
. In both countries,
Negative student-teacher relationships
mediated the relationship between mentioned components of empathy and aggression, thus showing the importance of classroom context, e.g., the relationships with teachers, when addressing empathy and aggression of students in the school context. The practical implication based on our findings is the prevention of negative student-teacher relationships and the promotion of empathy among students (as well as teachers).
The present paper focuses on teacher?s role in social justice and explores
how teachers perceive and react upon diversity and inequality in their
classrooms. Through a literature review, we aimed to ...answer three research
questions: 1) what are diversity awareness and critical consciousness in
education; 2) why are diversity awareness and critical consciousness
important; and 3) how can diversity awareness and critical consciousness be
supported in teachers. The literature review has revealed that most papers
on teachers? diversity awareness and critical consciousness have been
published within the last few years and that the importance of the two
concepts has been recognized for a wide range of educators. There seems to
be a growing interest in this topic due to the increase of the diversity in
classrooms and the recognition of the teachers? role in addressing diversity
and inequality. However, large-scale studies would be a needed contribution
to the field, as most of the existing studies are small-scale. Based on this
review, we argue that both diversity awareness and critical consciousness
need to be supported through preservice and in-service teacher professional
development programs, if we are to make education systems more inclusive for
all.
The study presents results founded upon the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice scale validation and the relations between personality traits and motivation for teaching in Croatia. A sample of 374 ...first-year preservice teachers from three universities participated in the study. Confirmatory factor analysis of the items comprising the Croatian version of the FIT-Choice scale provided support for its construct validity following the omission of six items with low factor loadings. Personality dimensions of the five-factor model provided a set of theoretically meaningful relations with the specific motivational factors determining the choice of teaching profession. In line with previous studies, our results showed that personality traits better predicted intrinsic motivation compared to extrinsic motivation. Two interpersonal dimensions, extraversion and agreeableness, were significant predictors of intrinsic career value, but also of satisfaction with the choice of this profession. Extraversion also predicted ability, whereas agreeableness demonstrated positive relations with social utility value motivations for a teaching career.
The goal of the research was to explore the role of motivation, gender roles and stereotypes in the explanation of students' educational outcomes in a stereotypically male educational domain: ...physics. Eccles and colleagues' expectancy-value model was used as a theoretical framework for the research. The research sample included 736 grammar school students from Zagreb, Croatia. The variables explored were expectancy of success, selfconcept of ability and subjective task values of physics, gender roles and stereotypes, and educational outcomes: academic achievement in physics, intention to choose physics at the high school leaving exam, and intention to choose a technical sciences university course. The results showed that girls had a lower self-concept of ability and lower expectancies of success in physics compared to boys, in spite of their higher physics school grades. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that self-concept of physics ability was the strongest predictor of physics school grades, whereas the utility value of physics was the key predictor of educational intentions for both genders. Expectancy of success was one of the key predictors of girls' educational intentions, as well. Endorsement of a typically masculine gender role predicted girls' and boys' stronger intentions to choose a stereotypically male educational domain, whereas acceptance of the stereotype about the poorer talent of women in technical sciences occupations predicted girls' lower educational outcomes related to physics. The practical implication of the research is the need to create gender-sensitive intervention programmes aimed at deconstructing the gender stereotypes and traditional gender roles that restrain students from choosing gender-non-stereotypical careers. (DIPF/Orig.).
U radu su prezentirani rezultati empirijskog istraživanja koje, oslonom na Bourdiea (1977.), ispituje povezanost rodnih, socioekonomskih i sociokulturnih karakteristika učenika/ca s njihovim uspjehom ...iz matematike i izborom srednje škole. Istraživanje je provedeno na uzorku od 693 učenika/ca 8. razreda osnovnih škola u Gradu Zagrebu i Zagrebačkoj županiji.
Rezultati pokazuju da učenice imaju bolje ocjene iz matematike od učenika te da češće nego učenici namjeravaju upisati gimnazije, ali znatno rjeđe strukovne škole sa zastupljenijom matematikom (tehničke škole). Učenici/e višeg ekonomskog i kulturnog statusa postižu bolji uspjeh iz matematike i češće biraju srednje škole sa zastupljenijom nastavom matematike. Bolji uspjeh iz matematike najsnažnije predviđaju rod, obrazovanje roditelja, posjedovanje klasične literature te pristup Internetu. Pri analiziranom odabiru srednje škole, odabir gimnazije je prvenstveno objašnjen kulturnim resursima obitelji učenika/ca, dok je odabir tehničke škole više objašnjen rodom učenika/ce. Dobiveni nalazi o rodnoj i socijalnoj diferencijaciji u skladu su s nalazima istraživanja u drugim zemljama.
Cilj rada bio je kvalitativnom metodom istražiti kako studenti/ce razumiju vlastiti proces odabira studija na visokoškolskoj razini. Teorijski okvir činila je teorija situiranih očekivanja i ...vrijednosti Eccles i sur. Istraživačka su pitanja bila: što studenti/ce prepoznaju kao glavne razloge za vlastitu odluku o odabiru studija, kako percipiraju ulogu važnih drugih osoba u odluci o odabiru studija te kako razumiju odnos rodnih stereotipa o studijima i zanimanjima te vlastitog odabira studija. Polustrukturirani intervjui provedeni su sa 44-ero studenata i studentica prve godine sveučilišnih i stručnih studija (22 djevojke i 22 mladića). Tematska analiza intervjua pokazala je da su motivacijska uvjerenja, važne druge osobe te rodni stereotipi imali različite uloge u odabiru studija. Subjektivne vrijednosti, posebno interes, percipirana korisnost i cijena truda, prepoznate su kao važni motivacijski utjecaji. Roditelji, profesori/ce te posebno prijatelji/ce utjecali su na odabir studija svojim savjetima, pružanjem informacija i podrške. Analiza rodne dimenzije pokazala je da je prisutnije shvaćanje da rodni stereotipi nisu utjecali na vlastiti odabir studija. No kada se prepoznaje utjecaj rodnih stereotipa na odabir, on je u skladu s očekivanjima teorije: studenti/ce rodno tipičnih studija navode da su izbjegavali rodno nestereotipne profesionalne odabire, dok studentica rodno nestereotipnog studija (strojarstva) opisuje važnost odbacivanja stereotipa za svoj odabir studija. Praktične implikacije rezultata odnose se na dodatno informiranje učenika/ca o sveučilišnim i stručnim studijskim programima te njihovo osvještavanje o utjecaju rodnih stereotipa na obrazovne odabire radi širenja spektra mogućih odabira studija.
The presented research set in a Croatian context explores beliefs about parental/maternity leave and factors explaining these beliefs. The data was gathered on a nationally representative sample of ...people living in Croatia (N=1000). Participants were asked questions about their beliefs towards parental leave take-up by the mother and the father, their socio-demographic data, attendance of religious services, partners' income disparity and gender-role beliefs. The results show that around 49% of both men and women believe that it is solely the mother's responsibility to use the entire leave, an additional 27% believe that the father should take some part of the leave, and around 24% believe that parents should share the leave equally. Men and women who support more equally shared leave take-up attend religious services less often and hold more egalitarian beliefs about gender division of labour, but do not differ in partners' income disparity. These results imply that gender ideology theory is more applicable in the explanation of beliefs about the gender division of parental leave compared to time-allocation theory. Results of the multinomial logistic regressions show that the strongest predictor of the belief about leave take-up is the gender-role belief. The less the participants believe that the gender division of labour should be traditionally divided, the more likely they are to support equally shared leave between parents. The implication of these findings is that shifts towards supporting gender egalitarian leave take-up will most likely not occur until the attitudes toward gender roles become more egalitarian in general.
The inclusion of social, emotional, and intercultural competences (SEI) in academic contexts has been supported by international organizations, such as the European Union, the United Nations, and the ...OECD, since the early 2000s. However, little information is yet available regarding the assessment of these competences. This paper shares the findings of a systematic literature review that produced an inventory of existing tools for the assessment of SEI competences of students and school staff. This is the first time assessment tools for these three competences have been concurrently reviewed. An interdisciplinary and international research team conducted this systematic literature review in the databases of ERIC, PsycInfo, PSYNDEX, Scopus, and Web of Science. Out of 13,963 articles, 149 assessment tools were examined and processed. In addition to the instrument analysis and a detailed description of the procedure, this article shows the basic theoretical concepts, as well as the limitations, of such a review. It was found that 1) the majority of the discovered instruments rely on self-reported survey and inventory data, 2) of the three competences, intercultural competence had the fewest relevant instruments, and 3) very few tools have been created to assess all three competences together. From this review, it is apparent that a wider variety of assessment tools (other than self-reports), as well as more comprehensive tools (e.g. qualitative analysis of vignettes) for the assessment of all three SEI competences, should be developed to meet international demand. The results of the literature review are available and freely accessible in the form of an assessment catalogue.
•13,963 articles were scanned based on a systematic literature review.•149 assessment tools were detected for social, emotional, intercultural competences.•88.6% of all assessment tools were self-reported inventories.•There are only few relevant instruments on intercultural competences.•Further research is needed on the interconnectedness of all three subareas.
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