Forced retirement in Ecuador´s State Universities: A privilege or condemnation to precarity?
The elderly go through psychological, social and physical transition stages due to natural ageing. Working life is affected by social prejudice against the old. Discussing forced retirement brings to mind the difference between right and ethically correct. This debate includes a public ethics issue...
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| description | The elderly go through psychological, social and physical transition stages due to natural ageing. Working life is affected by social prejudice against the old. Discussing forced retirement brings to mind the difference between right and ethically correct. This debate includes a public ethics issue and an educational issue; teaching by inexperienced or poorly qualified teachers may affect students' academic development. This paper will look at forced retirement of Ecuadorian faculty members at the Guayaquil State University. The analysis will center on equality and ethics and will explain the issue's economical, educational and social context as well as how these decisions place university the schools and departments of the University in a state of precarity. It will also explore how forced retirement is linked with age discrimination and how it influences education, preventing students from benefitting from the experience and knowledge of older teachers.
CITACIÓN: Farfán Jaime, R. (2015). Forced retirement in Ecuador´s State Universities: A privilege or condemnation to precarity? Podium, 28, 42–51. doi:10.31095/podium.2015.28.3
ENLACE DOI: https://doi.org/10.31095/podium.2015.28.3 |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3d360c357378414fb11cc405d81acd642022-12-21T18:55:50ZengUniversidad Espíritu SantoPODIUM1390-54732588-09692017-06-01028425131Forced retirement in Ecuador´s State Universities: A privilege or condemnation to precarity?Rodolfo Farfán Jaime0Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu SantoThe elderly go through psychological, social and physical transition stages due to natural ageing. Working life is affected by social prejudice against the old. Discussing forced retirement brings to mind the difference between right and ethically correct. This debate includes a public ethics issue and an educational issue; teaching by inexperienced or poorly qualified teachers may affect students' academic development. This paper will look at forced retirement of Ecuadorian faculty members at the Guayaquil State University. The analysis will center on equality and ethics and will explain the issue's economical, educational and social context as well as how these decisions place university the schools and departments of the University in a state of precarity. It will also explore how forced retirement is linked with age discrimination and how it influences education, preventing students from benefitting from the experience and knowledge of older teachers. CITACIÓN: Farfán Jaime, R. (2015). Forced retirement in Ecuador´s State Universities: A privilege or condemnation to precarity? Podium, 28, 42–51. doi:10.31095/podium.2015.28.3 ENLACE DOI: https://doi.org/10.31095/podium.2015.28.3http://revistas.uees.edu.ec/index.php/Podium/article/view/32Retirementprecarityethics, justice, age discrimination |
| spellingShingle | Rodolfo Farfán Jaime Forced retirement in Ecuador´s State Universities: A privilege or condemnation to precarity? PODIUM Retirement precarity ethics, justice, age discrimination |
| title | Forced retirement in Ecuador´s State Universities: A privilege or condemnation to precarity? |
| title_full | Forced retirement in Ecuador´s State Universities: A privilege or condemnation to precarity? |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Forced retirement in Ecuador´s State Universities: A privilege or condemnation to precarity? |
| title_short | Forced retirement in Ecuador´s State Universities: A privilege or condemnation to precarity? |
| title_sort | forced retirement in ecuador´s state universities a privilege or condemnation to precarity |
| topic | Retirement precarity ethics, justice, age discrimination |
| url | http://revistas.uees.edu.ec/index.php/Podium/article/view/32 |
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