Lifelong Learn. 2015, 5, 134-147
Motivation for Becoming a Teacher in Relation to Personal Characteristics of Students in the Context of John L. Holland’s Theory
This study is based on John L. Holland’s theory in which he defined six career personality types. Following this theory one of the aims of the study is to find out what is the percentage of individual types amongst students of pedagogical programmes. Further the research aims to discover how much are students of pedagogical programmes motivated to become teachers and what is the relation between the motivation to become a teacher and scores in scales of a Questionnaire of career choice and planning of professional career. We also attempted to identify the motivation related to gender and different pedagogical study programmes. The results show that the most motivated are students of Kindergarten teacher training and Primary school teacher training. Generally female students are more motivated than male students. From the personality types amongst students of pedagogical programmes the most common is Social type (S) and the least common is the Investigative type (I).
