Unsurprisingly, the most common reason that preservice teachers give for wanting to get into teaching were based in altruism… This can be thought of as a kind of intrinsic motivation but it's also important to think through the relationship between this type of altruistic motivation and a similar motivation used to bring about colonialism.
Altruistic motivations were among the most common reasons the teacher candidates identified for wanting to teach… Three themes account for these motivations, including the single most prominent within our analysis: the desire to make a difference for individual children. Rutten & Badiali 2020 | Page 5
#❓question Does the altruistic nature of wanting to teach interfere with the need to be culturally responsive with instruction? Is there a hint of colonialism that comes into play here? (Certainly an unconscious bias)
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