Is teacher attrition a poor estimate of the value of teacher education? A Swedish case.

Carlsson, Rickard,1984-Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för psykologi (PSY),PEPP (author)

Far from all who complete teacher education end up working as teachers throughout their entire career. At first sight the value of teacher education, in terms of efficiency, seems to be a failure. In the present article we argue that teacher attrition, when defined as whether one is working as teacher or not, is a too blunt measure to gauge whether teacher education has been valuable. With a unique dataset, where we have detailed information on 87 Swedish teacher graduates’ working life across 23 years, we can consider whether activities and/or experiences point to an apparent use of teacher education. In conclusion, we find that in order to get informative estimates of its value it is important to consider it from different perspectives and to consider attrition related to the total working time spent in educational settings across a career rather than percentage leaving teaching after a set of years.

Lindqvist, PerLinnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP),PEPP(Swepub:lnu)rlipe (author)
Nordänger, Ulla Karin,1958-Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP),PEPP(Swepub:lnu)rnoul (author)
LinnéuniversitetetInstitutionen för psykologi (PSY) (creator_code:org_t)

In:European Journal of Teacher Education: Taylor & Francis42:2, s. 243-2570261-97681469-5928

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