WHAT LEADS RETIRED TEACHERS TO RETURN TO TEACHING?

Authors

  • Vanessa Ribeiro Andreto Meira Universidade Estadual Paulista
  • Yoshie Ussami Ferrari Leite Universidade Estadual Paulista

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v26i0.2821

Keywords:

Retired Teachers, Return to Teaching, Teacher Working Conditions

Abstract

This article aims to present the data from our research, concerning the reasons that led six teachers from the Presidente Prudente-SP and Presidente Bernardes-SP Education System to retire and return to teaching after retirement. The theoretical reference involved studies on the context of the public school and the dilemmas faced by teachers, lifecycles and teaching career and aspects of inactivity linked to retirement. The research was qualitative character and as instruments, we use semi-structured interviews. The results indicated that the reasons that influenced the teachers return, it’has relationship with the context of precariousness teaching profession, considering the low wages. The fear of losing the social and professional identity, becoming inactive, added to the feeling of yet have desire to carry out the work were also justifications denoted by teachers for the decision to return to teaching.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v26i0.2821

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Author Biography

Vanessa Ribeiro Andreto Meira, Universidade Estadual Paulista

Possuo graduação em Pedagogia pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2008) e mestrado em Educacao pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2012). Atualmente é professora PEB I efetiva na rede municipal de ensino de Presidente Bernardes. Tem experiência na área de Educação, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: professores aposentados, trabalho docente, formação de professores e políticas públicas.

Published

2015-05-26

How to Cite

MEIRA, V. R. A.; LEITE, Y. U. F. WHAT LEADS RETIRED TEACHERS TO RETURN TO TEACHING?. Nuances: estudos sobre Educação, Presidente Prudente, v. 26, p. 219–233, 2015. DOI: 10.14572/nuances.v26i0.2821. Disponível em: https://revista.fct.unesp.br./index.php/Nuances/article/view/2821. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

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