Struggle to become a teacher

Abstract

The contribution is a part of the research project “Teacher’s belief about the pedagogical use of children’s preconceptions.” The contribution builds on the previous paper: Beliefs of student of teaching: a case study. The text presents the partial result of the research, on which the author has been working for one year. I therefore regards the second part of a pilot research strategy. The main aim of the research was to understand the motives to study and then to carry out the teaching profession and to identify the key factors that influence this role. Qualitative research design was chosen in the research and the main research method, which was used, is an interview. The analysis of primarily collected data is a view of a student teacher´s structure of thinking, his motives to the teaching profession and exposing his momentary belief in the teaching profession. The research is now continuing with pilot interviews of other participants - student teachers. This text is deeply engaged in one semantic category that was found in analyzing of the data. The key finding was an influence of the teacher practice and “disappointment”. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.