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.
Bizet
Ivan
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Department of Physical Activity Sciences, University of Quebec, Trois-Rivières, Canada.
Laurencelle
Louis
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Lemoyne
Jean
J
Larouche
Richard
R
Trudeau
François
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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