
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Mark and Elaine hear from researcher Emily Macleod, who says that if we want more people to try out teaching, we have to stop thinking of it as a vocation.
"These trajectories into teaching, they're not linear. They're multi-directional, they're complex... No one's trajectory into anything is going to be straightforward."
Not a vocation? For Emily Macleod teaching is an expert profession – nobody is 'born' to do it.
One in three young people consider teaching at some point. What happens to the ‘could have beens’?
Full show notes and transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/nov/what-happens-could-have-beens-who-decided-not-teach-ecf-staffroom-s04e05
By UCL Institute of Education5
33 ratings
Mark and Elaine hear from researcher Emily Macleod, who says that if we want more people to try out teaching, we have to stop thinking of it as a vocation.
"These trajectories into teaching, they're not linear. They're multi-directional, they're complex... No one's trajectory into anything is going to be straightforward."
Not a vocation? For Emily Macleod teaching is an expert profession – nobody is 'born' to do it.
One in three young people consider teaching at some point. What happens to the ‘could have beens’?
Full show notes and transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/nov/what-happens-could-have-beens-who-decided-not-teach-ecf-staffroom-s04e05

11,111 Listeners

7,640 Listeners

2,407 Listeners

1,320 Listeners

979 Listeners

27,377 Listeners

0 Listeners

1 Listeners

1 Listeners

2,906 Listeners

967 Listeners

20,090 Listeners

775 Listeners

342 Listeners

838 Listeners

23 Listeners

2,156 Listeners

105 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners