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By Jeff Young, Professor of Art, Art Education | Art Education »
With colleagues Chris Bain, University of Texas, and Deborah Kuster, retired Faculty Emerita, University of Central Arkansas, Jeff Young published “Once a Teacher Always a Teacher: The Stories of Two Art Educators Who Left Public Schools” in Teaching and Teacher Education, April, 2022.
The article is the result of a longitudinal study tracking seven art teachers in Texas and Arkansas from their student teaching semester to their tenth year of teaching. The participants were interviewed after their first, fifth, and tenth years of teaching. During the ten-year interviews, the researchers found that two of the seven participants were no longer teaching in public schools and decided to focus an article on their decisions for leaving the field.
This publication marks the sixth article published related to the study and the fourth written by Bain, Young, and Kuster. The group’s three earlier articles, based on the fifth-year interviews, focused on teacher identity (2014, Visual Arts Research), curriculum (2015, Studies in Art Education), and mentorship (2017, Art Education). Bain, Young, and Kuster are currently working on an article about teacher resiliency based on the tenth-year interviews and are planning for the fifteenth-year interviews.
