<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Introduction: The career trajectories of young university teachers have been a relatively frequent research target in North American and Western European countries but an entirely neglected topic of the Czech and Slovak educational research. This paper’s ambition is to narrow the gap. The research goal is to describe one aspect of career advancement of young university teachers - their professional plans after their entry to an academic position at a university after completion of their doctoral studies.Methods: This qualitative investigation was concentrated on a sample of ten young university teachers currently employed in Czech universities. The data were gathered through in-depth interviews, sound recordings were converted to written transcripts, and then open- and category coded.Results: The findings show how the young teachers adapted to the workplace environment, how they struggled with the double roles in academia, i.e., an instructor and a researcher, and which personal decisions they made for the next years in employment. I was revealed how the desire to attain assistant professorship overwhelmed their professional, occupational and personal decisions.Limitations: As concerns the limitation of the findings, the qualitative investigation went deeply into the thinking and decision making of the study participants but was unable to draft wide generalisations.</abstract>

Introduction: The career trajectories of young university teachers have been a relatively frequent research target in North American and Western European countries but an entirely neglected topic of the Czech and Slovak educational research. This paper’s ambition is to narrow the gap. The research goal is to describe one aspect of career advancement of young university teachers - their professional plans after their entry to an academic position at a university after completion of their doctoral studies.Methods: This qualitative investigation was concentrated on a sample of ten young university teachers currently employed in Czech universities. The data were gathered through in-depth interviews, sound recordings were converted to written transcripts, and then open- and category coded.Results: The findings show how the young teachers adapted to the workplace environment, how they struggled with the double roles in academia, i.e., an instructor and a researcher, and which personal decisions they made for the next years in employment. I was revealed how the desire to attain assistant professorship overwhelmed their professional, occupational and personal decisions.Limitations: As concerns the limitation of the findings, the qualitative investigation went deeply into the thinking and decision making of the study participants but was unable to draft wide generalisations.

Career Plans of Novice University Teachers: The Research Perspective

Faculty of Humanities, University of Tomas Bata in Zlín, Zlín,

Acta Educationis Generalis

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Introduction: The career trajectories of young university teachers have been a relatively frequent research target in North American and Western European...

Career Plans of Novice University Teachers: The Research Perspective

Publié en ligne: 20 avr. 2017

Pages: 9 - 26

Reçu: 08 févr. 2017

Accepté: 07 mars 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/atd-2017-0001

Mots clés
professional career, occupational career, teacher, researcher, postdoc

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Career Plans of Novice University Teachers: The Research Perspective

Publié en ligne: 20 avr. 2017

Pages: 9 - 26

Reçu: 08 févr. 2017

Accepté: 07 mars 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/atd-2017-0001

Mots clésprofessional career, occupational career, teacher, researcher, postdoc

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
professional career, occupational career, teacher, researcher, postdoc