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Lifelong Learning and Retiring Retirement Stereotypes
- Author(s):
- Steve McCarty (see profile)
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- Digital Humanists, Japanese Studies
- Subject(s):
- Aging--Study and teaching, Japan, Education, Higher, Leisure--Social aspects, Language and languages--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Presentation
- Meeting Title:
- Joint Mini Conference of Lifelong Language Learning & Accessibility Special Interest Groups
- Meeting Org.:
- Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)
- Meeting Loc.:
- Tokyo / Zoom
- Meeting Date:
- February 26, 2022
- Tag(s):
- retirement, continuing education, japanese society, academic social networks, civic engagement and volunteerism, Age studies, Higher education, Sociology of leisure, Language teaching
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/w64f-cg42
- Abstract:
- Whether citizens, sojourners, or immigrants, most employed residents of Japan will be unable or unwilling to retire. The natural desire to choose the terms of transitions, however, runs into customary age limits, around 65 for full-time and 70 to 75 for part-time employment in the case of higher education. Combined with stereotypical dismissiveness towards older people, a sudden loss of status can be vertiginous. Yet there is a great demand for the services that older language teachers in particular can perform in Japanese education, society, and academia internationally. This presentation illustrates how teaching duties can be gradually decreased and improved in quality, while the teacher remains at least as active outside of institutions. Many suggestions will be offered: how to have a better quality of life than ever, contributing valuable services where needed, and enjoying more free time to create and curate. Lifelong learning can accord with lifelong interests.
- Notes:
- This is a colorful, illustrated slideshow for an online presentation, the Zoom recording of which can be found on the open Web from March 2022 by searching for "Lifelong Learning and Retiring Retirement Stereotypes"
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 year ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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