Looking Back to Look Ahead: The Life Trajectory Among Indigenous People Retired Teachers in the Philippines

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.225How to use a DOI?

Keywords

life trajectory, retirement, teachers

Abstract

The study describes the life trajectory of public-school indigenous people retired teachers of Mountain Province in the Philippines using snowballing in the selection of participants. This undertaking used a narrative design with a semi-structured questionnaire as data- gathering instrument. The gathered data were analyzed using the Colaizzi method and cool and warm analyses. The study revealed that retirement is painful when retirement benefits were lost to a financial scam, illegal recruitment, zero pension due to loans, and mild stroke, and other related health risks. The study likewise revealed that early retirement is gainful, and retirement readiness contributes to retiree’s comfortable life. The challenges encountered by retired teachers are lack of social support services to livelihood and the declining health condition. However, mostly retired teachers are extending social responsibilities in: (a) campaign against drugs; (b) women and child welfare; (c) environmental protection; (d) implementation of curfew hours; and (e) peace and order. Others gave religious classroom instruction and values education voluntarily in the school. Finally, findings in the study can provide guidelines involving retirement policies, loan policies, retirement readiness, and provision of social welfare services and better opportunities to retirees.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Brent Joseph D. Bangao
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/15
TI  - Looking Back to Look Ahead: The Life Trajectory Among Indigenous People Retired Teachers in the Philippines
BT  - Proceedings of the 1 st International Conference on Information Technology and Education (ICITE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 128
EP  - 134
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.225
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.225
ID  - Bangao2020
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