Wybór zawodu w opiniach nauczycieli

Abstract

The article deals with two problem groups and namely reasons and circumstances accompanying selection of profession by interviewed teachers and their children. To define factors determining selection of profession by teachers themselves there were submitted to analysis motives of selecting the teaching profession and the stage of school education or professional work at which the decision to take up this profession was made. From among many circumstance-conditioning this problem there was taken into account the influence exerted by other people as well as the attitude of parents of interviewed teachers to the decision of their children concerning undertaking work in the education field. In order to determine aspirations and professional preferences of teachers' children there were analysed various types of professions performed by grown up children, types of schools attended by young children as well as aspirations and professional plans made by parents in relation to small children. A special attention was devoted to attitudes of teachers towards continuation of pedagogical work by their children and actually occuring inheritance of this profession.