Amidst fury, regret, and remorse: An analysis of university students who were placed in disliked majors

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dc.authoridToprak, Mustafa/0000-0002-9390-3481
dc.contributor.authorToprak, Mustafa
dc.contributor.authorTosten, Rasim
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-24T19:29:52Z
dc.date.available2024-12-24T19:29:52Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.departmentSiirt Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThis study is an attempt to uncover the factors leading students to study in the majors they dislike. Using a qualitative design, the study aims to explore the forces that cause students to make career choices against their will, and to investigate their future plans during their struggles with their parents and disliked majors. The study was conducted with 13 first-year university students who studied different majors within a school of education. Since the foci of the study were students who disliked their majors and were placed in teaching departments against their will, a purposive sampling technique was used during the selection of participants, and data were analyzed through the content analysis technique. The study revealed that the students had been placed into disliked majors under the simultaneous influence of either one or several forces, such as parental pressure to keep their children geographically close, perceived employment opportunities, life-time job security given to teachers at public schools, fatigue, and failure to get a high scores to be placed in their preferred choice. The study presents suggestions for educational policy-makers by discussing determinants of teaching career choices, by making specific references to parental influences on their children's decision-making, and by showing that some teacher candidates are placed in teaching majors by making random choices.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1038416217719598
dc.identifier.endpage133
dc.identifier.issn1038-4162
dc.identifier.issn2200-6974
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85066411561
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage124
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1038416217719598
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12604/7287
dc.identifier.volume26
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000414655100005
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofAustralian Journal of Career Development
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241222
dc.subjectCareer choice
dc.subjectteacher candidates
dc.subjectdisliked majors
dc.subjectqualitative study
dc.subjecthigher education students
dc.titleAmidst fury, regret, and remorse: An analysis of university students who were placed in disliked majors
dc.typeArticle

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