Abstract
This paper seeks to enhance our understanding of how individuals in the teaching profession navigate their late careers and work-retirement transitions in the context of organizational practices and retirement policies. We do so by exploring narratives on career practices deployed in their late careers. Specifically, we draw on the perspective of life course theory (Elder, Kirkpatrick Johnson, & Crosnoe, 2003) and institutional logics (Thornton & Ocasio, 2008) and explore how individuals construct practices to shape their work-retirement transitions analysing how these practices relate to and reproduce field-wide templates for careers in the institutional, professional and organisational field of teaching profession. We will first discuss the literature on retirement transitions and its influences as well as individuals’ practices to shape this transitions and follow up with our theoretical perspectives on institutional logics.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Acceptance date - 26 Feb 2021 |
Event | 37th EGOS Colloquium 2021: Organizing for a Inclusive Society: Meanings, Motivations, and Mechanisms - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 8 Jul 2021 → 10 Jul 2021 |
Conference
Conference | 37th EGOS Colloquium 2021 |
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Abbreviated title | EGOS |
Country/Territory | Netherlands |
City | Amsterdam |
Period | 8/07/21 → 10/07/21 |