Recent studies of teachers’ career development, from methodological perspective

Abstract

The goal of this paper is presentation of new research contributions on teachers’ career cycle from the perspective of the applied methodology. The paper also describes main results of the researches, out of which we learn about the course of change in teachers’ professional development, attitudes towards change, perceptions of relationships to stu dents and factors that contribute maintaining commitment during career. The results can contribute well to the creation of the programs for teacher in-service education, ha ving in mind their educational needs at different stages of the career, varying attitude towards introduction of the innovations into the practice and stimulating characteristics of school environment. We conclude that quantitative research opens topics for quali tative research that offers insight into the stories and description of the context, while qualitative researches facilitate quantitative ones that can give more certain predictions, offer possibility of generalization and control of different relevant variables.