Precarious professionality: graduate outcomes and experiences from an Initial Teacher (Further) Education programme in Ireland. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: O'Neill, Jerry; Fitzsimons, Camilla
• Is Part Of: Research in post-compulsory education. Volume 25:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 22
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: ITE -- further education -- graduate outcomes -- precarity -- professional inequity; Post-compulsory education -- Research -- Periodicals; Education, Higher -- Research -- Periodicals; 374
• DOI: 10.1080/13596748.2020.1720143
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1359-6748

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article presents and discusses the findings of a small-scale research project into the occupational outcomes of graduates of an Initial Teacher (Further) Education (ITE) programme at Maynooth University in Ireland. The findings from this mixed-method research indicate that many graduates experience high levels of occupational precarity and a sense of professional inequity when compared with their compulsory education teacher-peers as they attempt to make the transition into the heterogeneous field of adult and Further Education in Ireland.