A National Survey of Education Students: Some Data on Background, Habits, and Reasons for Entering Education
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Teacher education, Career choice, SocioeconomicRésumé
Un échantillon de 583 étudiants en sciences de l’éducation dans dix universités canadiennes ont rempli de façon anonyme un questionnaire sur leurs antécédents, leurs habitudes et leurs opinions. Les analyses des informations qu’ils ont fournies sur leurs familles, sur leurs convictions religieuses et politiques, sur leurs habitudes de lecture, sur leurs études et leur scolarité et sur les raisons précises qui les incitent à vouloir poursuivre une carrière d’enseignant ont révélé chez eux plusieurs caractéristiques semblables. Leurs antécédents socioéconomiques sont représentatifs de la société canadienne dans son ensemble, même si certains—en général, les femmes—viennent de milieux un peu plus favorisés. Les parents de la plupart de ces étudiants n’ont jamais fréquenté l’université; parmi les principales raisons invoquées pour avoir choisi les sciences de l’éducation figurent l’interaction sociale et les avantages matériels. Les étudiants faisant partie de cet échantillon sont conformistes quant à leur orientation politique et religieuse. Leurs habitudes de lecture et leur utilisation des médias révèlent que peu d’entre eux s’intéressent ou sont attachés à des idéaux culturels et qu’ils préfèrent la culture commerciale de masse. Bien des étudiants dans cet échantillon (tout particulièrement les hommes) ont mentionné qu’ils avaient eu pendant longtemps des problèmes de lecture; dans l’ensemble, l’échantillon réunit un fort pourcentage de gens peu intéressés par la lecture.
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