Teacher education and the choice to enter the teaching profession: A prospective study

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1619-1629

  Rots, Isabel ^a   Aelterman, Antonia ^a   Devos, Geert ^a   Vlerick, Peter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Entrance into the teaching profession; Path analysis; Pre service teacher education; Teaching commitment; Teaching profession

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953886447     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2010.06.013     Document Type: Article

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