Career changes among physical educators: searching for new goals or escaping a heavy task load?
Physical educators experience several occupational constraints and a high risk of physical injury associated with a high attrition rate. Our investigation aimed at identifying the principal career reorientation factors among physical educators and reasons for their career changes. This research used semistructured interviews (n = 53) that were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. While younger teachers frequently invoked job precariousness, the more experienced teachers and those who made a transition toward other teaching functions put more emphasis on teaching problems, work conditions, and physical context. Those who transferred toward administrative duties insisted on their desire for a new challenge. Our study indicates that career reorientation is most often associated with job precariousness and the pursuit of new challenges, respectively, for younger and older physical educators.
Department of Physical Activity Sciences, University of Quebec, Trois-Rivières, Canada.
Ivan
I
Bizet
Louis
L
Laurencelle
Jean
J
Lemoyne
Richard
R
Larouche
François
F
Trudeau
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002321:Career Choice; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D011792:Quebec; D016526:Workload