Pahl Angelika, Tschiesner Reinhard
Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 39042 Brixen, Italy.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2023 Aug 5;13(8):658. doi: 10.3390/bs13080658.
This study focuses on the vocational interests of trainee teachers for kindergarten and primary school, investigating whether the RIASEC-interest dimensions are related to teaching preferences in the Swiss subject of Nature-Human-Society, which is characterized by its multidisciplinarity. Interests are a source of individual differences in people and important to study since they influence intrinsic motivation, and thus, behavior, effort, and occupational decisions. The results of the conducted survey, composed of the Nature-Human-Society questionnaire and the general interest structure test (AIST-R), show, in a sample of 220 participants, that trainee teachers' vocational interests were partly related to their previous experiences in the specific content domains of Nature-Human-Society and slightly differed by gender. The RIASEC interest dimensions of social, investigative, realistic, and partly artistic evidence significant correlations with preferences in the teaching topics of the Nature-Human-Society subject. It became clear that trainee teachers with high realistic and investigative interests and low social and artistic interests tended to prefer thing-related teaching topics, while pronounced social and artistic interests with low realistic and investigative interests were associated with teaching preferences for people-related topics in the subject of Nature-Human-Society. The dominant role of Prediger's people- versus thing-related interest orientation could thus also be confirmed in the choice of favorite teaching topics, signaling that teachers feel comfortable with those topics that match their interest structure.
本研究聚焦于幼儿园和小学实习教师的职业兴趣，调查在瑞士以多学科性为特征的“自然 - 人类 - 社会”学科中，RIASEC兴趣维度是否与教学偏好相关。兴趣是个体差异的一个来源，且由于它影响内在动机，进而影响行为、努力程度和职业决策，所以对其进行研究很重要。由“自然 - 人类 - 社会”问卷和一般兴趣结构测试（AIST - R）组成的调查结果显示，在220名参与者的样本中，实习教师的职业兴趣部分与他们之前在“自然 - 人类 - 社会”特定内容领域的经历相关，且在性别上略有差异。社会、研究、现实以及部分艺术方面的RIASEC兴趣维度与“自然 - 人类 - 社会”学科教学主题的偏好存在显著相关性。很明显，具有高现实和研究兴趣以及低社会和艺术兴趣的实习教师倾向于偏好与事物相关的教学主题，而具有显著社会和艺术兴趣以及低现实和研究兴趣的实习教师则与在“自然 - 人类 - 社会”学科中对与人相关主题的教学偏好相关。因此，普雷迪格的人与事物相关兴趣取向的主导作用在最喜欢的教学主题选择中也得到了证实，这表明教师对与他们兴趣结构相匹配的主题感到自在。
