Open AccessForty or fifty something. What we are like at mid-life.
Author(s) -
P. Stanley
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
kairaranga
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-9021
pISSN - 1175-9232
DOI - 10.54322/kairaranga.v8i2.98
Subject(s) - formative assessment , workforce , section (typography) , special section , service (business) , work (physics) , human life , psychology , sociology , public relations , political science , medical education , pedagogy , business , engineering , medicine , marketing , law , advertising , mechanical engineering , humanity , engineering physics
Many teachers and human service workers are 40-50 years of age and this paper explores the formative influences, and the developmental characteristics, of workers who are presentlymiddle-aged. This leads onto an examination of the importance of relationships and work to mid-lifers. In the concluding section of the paper, there is some consideration of the significance of having an older workforce for the success of the current policy innovations in special education.