Commitment to Teaching of Postgraduate and College‐trained Students

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The commitment to teaching of students in a university department of education, graduates in two colleges of education and students on BEd and three‐year courses in the two colleges of education is compared. A higher proportion of those in postgraduate training than on BEd and certificate courses indicated teaching as their ideal career. However, when firmness of intention to make a career in education and hoped‐for lifestyles were considered, it was the concurrently trained BEd students together with the consecutively trained postgraduates who emerged as the more committed. Thus from this point of view course pattern per se does not seem important. It is suggested that commitment to teaching in the sense of intentions rather than aspirations is related to the extent to which career prospects are thought to be more or less favourable. Women students were consistently more favourably disposed towards actual school teaching than men. Implications for the proposals of the James Committee are discussed.

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