An analysis of Australian teacher workforce policy: Challenges and opportunities for teacher recruitment and retention

A McPherson, J Lampert - Policy Futures in Education, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the shortage of teachers worldwide. Shortages
have been reported globally including in countries such as the UK, Netherlands, France …

Teacher shortages: A social justice perspective on an Australian teacher education policy

M Mills, L van Leent, T Bourke, C Wood… - Teaching …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Australia and much of the Global North are facing a teacher shortage crisis. In this paper, we
examine the most recent (2023) Australian education policy response to the crisis that ties …

Deciding (not) to Become a STEM Teacher: Career Changers' Perspectives on Student Behaviour, Teacher Roles, Teacher Education, and the Social Value of the …

E Siostrom - Research in Science Education, 2024 - Springer
Ongoing shortages of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers
have prompted policy aimed at recruiting career change teachers as a solution. However …

50 years after the Securing Educational Personnel Act (1974): Why Japan faces teacher shortage

Y Ono - Journal of Education for Teaching, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the paradoxical teacher shortage in Japan 50 years after the
enactment of the 1974 Securing Educational Personnel Act, which aimed to attract talented …

Career change teacher: exploring perceptions from 23 Australian teacher educators

R Mills, T Bourke, S White, M Mills… - Asia-Pacific Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Career change teachers (CCTs) are heralded in international education policies as key to
addressing teacher shortages and increasing quality and diversity in the profession. Using a …

Addressing teacher shortages in hard-to-staff schools

B Dadvand, J Lampert - Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Over recent years, few topics in education have received as much media, public and political
attention as that of teacher shortages. While there is an overarching agreement about the …

Addressing the teacher shortage in Australia: what do the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) completion data tell us?

L Dao, J Allen, D Pullen, S Cowie - Discover Education, 2024 - Springer
With projections from the Australian federal government indicating an impending
exacerbation of the teacher shortage by 2025, it is timely to explore potential approaches …

[CITATION][C] Discover Education

L Dao, J Allen, D Pullen, S Cowie - 2024