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CHOOSING A TEACHING CAREER IN HIGHER EDUCATION – A CHALLENGE OF MOTIVATIONAL AND NON-MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS
1 "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (ROMANIA)
2 Doctoral School, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University (ROMANIA)
3 Department of Building Services, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University (ROMANIA)
4 Department of Physics, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University (ROMANIA)
About this paper:
Appears in: ICERI2018 Proceedings
Publication year: 2018
Pages: 562-566
ISBN: 978-84-09-05948-5
ISSN: 2340-1095
doi: 10.21125/iceri.2018.1116
Conference name: 11th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Dates: 12-14 November, 2018
Location: Seville, Spain
Abstract:
To be a teacher is a noble responsibility which involves, besides professional competencies in the chosen field, very much vocation and dedication. The teacher must have an important luggage of knowledge but, above all, must have the ability to systematize and transfer it to the students. In the absence of the latter, the didactic act becomes a mechanical one, of no interest for the student and, eventually, even for the professor. Choosing the profession of teacher in higher education is often motivated by its importance on the social scale, the financial remuneration that has recently become significant in the Romanian education system, the job security or pleasant working conditions. Often, however, a deeper analysis of these aspects can easily lead to demotivation by the low pay of early-stage professors, the prospects of very late career development, the lack or insufficient development of teaching and research laboratories. The purpose of this paper is to present the main motivational and non-motivational aspects for considering the teaching profession, the role of professional and psycho-pedagogical trainings in didactic career, as well as some European and individual strategies to stimulate higher education attending and teaching improving.
Keywords:
Higher education, teacher becoming, strategies.