Plugging the Holes in the Bucket: A Qualitative Study to Determine Perceptions of Agriculture Teachers who have Left the Agricultural Education Profession.
详细信息
- 作者：Wood ; Meghan McPhail.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2014
- 毕业院校：The University of North Carolina
- Department：Agricultural and Extension Education.
- ISBN：9781321584639
- CBH：3690409
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：2979234
- Pages：172
文摘
Agricultural education has experienced a shortage of qualified teachers for many decades. The exodus of teachers,teacher attrition,has been identified as a large factor to the shortage of teachers. Retaining highly qualified agriculture teachers is critical to the success of not only the students but also the profession of agricultural education. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to better understand the phenomenon of agriculture teacher attrition. Semi- structured interviews were conducted with seven former agriculture teachers in order to describe how they characterized their teaching experience and identify factors that influenced the decision to leave. Two rounds of interviews were completed and data were analyzed. Results indicated teacher attrition was a complex event that was experienced differently by each individual and a teacher's decision to leave was influenced by a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors they experience during their teaching career. The study found that five participants came from strong agricultural education backgrounds and the influence of teachers is what made them become an agriculture teacher. This study also found lack of administrative support,bureaucracy of education,and salary were among the reasons given by former agriculture teachers as to their decision to leave the profession. Finally,the study found while many of the participants reflect positively about the impact their students had on them,there was no single factor that could influence them to return to the agriculture teaching profession. For many of the participants,they are satisfied with their decision to leave and are happy in their new career.