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McIntyre, Joanna – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
Within the UK there are grave concerns about retention and attrition rates within the teaching profession, particularly in challenging schools. These are compounded by worries about the gap that will be left as long-serving teachers reach retirement age. This article is about the working lives of long-serving teachers in three high-poverty urban…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Retirement, Foreign Countries
Jarvis, Peter – 2001
This book, which incorporates information gathered through research in the United Kingdom and the United States, explores the nature and importance of learning throughout the human life cycle. The following are among the topics examined: (1) learning and third age education (the emergence of education for adults, third age education); (2) learning…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning