Ariel Tichnor-Wagner , Andrew Bacher-Hicks , Olivia L. Chi
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Abstract
With school systems facing teacher shortages, one solution has been easing entry into the profession through emergency licensure. This qualitative study examines the motivations of emergency license holders in Massachusetts to join the teaching profession during the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on open-ended survey responses, interviews and focus groups with over 800 emergency liceense holders. Overall, emergency license holders considered teaching for a range of motivations, with intrinsic and altruistic motivations most common regardless of participants’ backgrounds. Findings suggest that loosening requirements may yield candidates with adaptive dispositions towards the profession, and hold implications for teacher recruitment initiatives through nontraditional pathways.
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Teaching and Teacher Education is an international journal concerned primarily with teachers, teaching, and/or teacher education situated in an international perspective and context. The journal focuses on early childhood through high school (secondary education), teacher preparation, along with higher education concerning teacher professional development and/or teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education is a multidisciplinary journal committed to no single approach, discipline, methodology, or paradigm. The journal welcomes varied approaches (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods) to empirical research; also publishing high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Manuscripts should enhance, build upon, and/or extend the boundaries of theory, research, and/or practice in teaching and teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education does not publish unsolicited Book Reviews.
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