Swiss vocational teachers' motivations to choose teaching as a career

What is it about?

Potential teacher shortage and low esteem of vocational education and training (VET) educator profession, together with the importance of attracting individuals best suited for the profession, lead to concerns about the reasons why people become VET educators as a second career. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of career choice in Swiss VET educators using an adaption of the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice framework (Watt and Richardson, 2007).

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Why is it important?

The findings of the research provide an insight into VET teachers’ career choice and how to promote the attractiveness of the profession.