Views From the Fields: Turkish Novice Teachers’ Struggles for Teaching and Learning to Teaching
Turkish Novice Teachers’ Struggles for Teaching and Learning to Teaching
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https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.1588Keywords:
Early Career Teachers,, Problems Encountered by Teachers,, Novice Teachers,, Teaching Profession, Phenomenological Study, Struggles for TeachingAbstract
This research aims to determine teachers’ problems in the early stages of their careers and to offer solutions. In this context, the research is a phenomenological study of 21 teachers selected by maximum variety sampling. The study’s data were obtained through semi-structured interview questions prepared by the researchers with the opinions of six experts. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with the teachers who participated in the study. The content analysis method was preferred in analyzing the obtained data, and NVivo 11 software was used. The findings of the study revealed that the problems faced by teachers include the learning-teaching process, educational structure and opportunities, individual and environmental factors, and education stakeholders. The research ends with various research and application suggestions by drawing attention to some points in preventing the problems that teachers encounter in the early stages of their careers.
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