Working longer? Professional and non-professional challenges of teachers’ retirement
In Québec, because of the aging of population and theintroduction by the government of policies to keep people inemployment, teachers are invited to stay in employment longer and putoff retirement. Our article seeks to determine if teachers can be opento such policies, and for what reasons they could be, through ananalysis of their working conditions and life trajectories. Theresearch is based on 24 semi-structured interviews, with teachers aged50 and over, in francophone school boards in Québec. We showthat most teachers do not envisage to stay longer in employment ineducation, but many plan to retire from their position and come back towork in other sectors, or under other conditions. The way teachersapproach retirement reveals inequalities as to the way social times andwork-life issues are articulated throughout the working life all theway to the transition into retirement.