An Analysis towards the Learning of the Retired Middle Age and Elder Who Start the Career Again- A Study on the Retired Government Employees, Military Services and Teachers.

• Main Authors: Lan-Fen Chen, 陳蘭芬
• Other Authors: Hui-Chuan Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y5cjcv

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 成人及繼續教育研究所 === 103 === This study applies qualitative research method to discuss about the learning processes of the retired middle age and elder who start the career again. The researcher uses the skill of semi-structured interview 13 retired middle age and elder government employees, military servicers as well as teachers. The purposes of this study are: I.To discuss the motivations and participation situations of the retired middle age and elder who start the career again. II.To discuss the learning processes of the retired middle age and elder who start the career again. III.According to what the researcher discovers from the interviewees, the researcher concludes some concrete suggestions for the other middle age and elder who are going to retire, yet also are ready to start the next stage of career. The researcher discovers that if the middle age and elder have some certain plans or preparations for the retirement, if so, then they tend to better retired life adaption, and the retirement preparation would also benefit them with starting a new career. The learning process of the middle age and elder who start career again shall be planned according to personal needs step by step; and the duration of each stage in the whole processes depends on the different situations of each person. This study applies the method of subject analysis to sort the learning processes of the middle age and elder government employees, military servicers as well as teachers out into 4 stages. The 4 stages are "start to discover," "adapt to learning," "self-reposition," and "future expectations." The conclusions of the study are as below: I.The stage of starting to discover: A.The middle age and elder are with good plans for the retirement and they do have good life adaptation after retiring. B.The reasons why these middle age and elder get retired influence the arrangement of starting the new career. C.The motivations of the middle age and elder retired government employees, military servicers and teachers to start the new career are various, including the good physical status, economical needs, commitment to spirit, self-realization, devotion to the society, and so on. Meanwhile, the new career must be something that meets the middle age and elder's interests. D.The middle age and elder retired government employees, military servicers and teachers got inspired by some other successful career start-up cases, and thus they make up minds to put themselves into the new career. E.The middle age and elder retired government employees, military servicers and teachers start up the new career for the fact of their friends' recommendation. F.The middle age and elder retired government employees, military servicers and teachers start up the new career for the reason of religious beliefs. II.The stage of adapting to learning A.Facing the new tasks and challenges of the society, the middle age and elder can adapt their new social roles according to participating in social learning activities. B.Through multiple learning ways, the middle age and elder retired government employees, military servicers and teachers respond to obstacles, learn professional knowledge and skills. C.The difficulties of the new career are indeed the retirees' starting up point to self-directed learning. D.Learning by doing, the experience of the new career is indeed helping the learning. III.The stage of self-reposition A.By starting up the new career, the middle age and elder retired government employees, military servicers and teachers could know themselves better, develop their potential abilities and produce a whole new professional oneself. B.Through the new career the middle age and elder retired government employees, military servicers and teachers comprehend the life meaning and grow self-confidence. C.The middle age and elder retired government employees, military servicers and teachers change their own mindsets to accept more flexibly the challenges from the new environment. IV.The stage of future expectation A.Cultivate the learning habits, realize there's no end in learning and to organize or participate in study groups. B.Footprints in the sand show where one has been. So they hide no skills behind, and are willing to share with the juniors. C.To promote the interactions between theory and practices. D.To assemble the peers to establish public ware fare clubs or association to reward the society. Finally, according to above conclusions, the researcher provides the suggestions as below: I.The short, mid and long-term suggestions toward the government A.Short-term: Strengthen up the advertisement to make good use of the retired human resources within the governmental departments as well as the private enterprises. B.Mid-term: Offer predispositions, to encourage the retirees to start the career again. C.Long-term: Provide diversified ways of retirements to guarantee the elder lives. II.The suggestions toward the job training center A.To set up education program for the retirees who start new careers. B.To meet up the retirees' needs to arrange the career starting up related courses. III.The suggestions toward the middle age and elder A.Humble yourself to increase the chance to start a new career B.To choose the new career according to personal needs C.To train up new professional specialties by lifelong learning. IV.The suggestions toward the future related studies The researcher suggests the following up related studies could discuss more about if the organizations provide the employees who will soon retire the related educational trainings.