Academic question
Apr. 3rd, 2003 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geminigirlSo...mostly for those of you with good access to journal and lit searches...
I'm wondering (after a conversation this morning) if anyone has studied the aging out of professional health educators/youth workers.
The idea here is that people who work with youth and adolescents eventually become "too old" to do it-they lose their legitimacy with the youth they work with. I'm looking for stuff on median age, and on what individuals and agencies do to prepare the educators/workers for this. Also stuff on whether people leave jobs because of burnout, promotions, whatnot, and what kinds of things they go to do after.
(If not, I might have to do it...)
I'm wondering (after a conversation this morning) if anyone has studied the aging out of professional health educators/youth workers.
The idea here is that people who work with youth and adolescents eventually become "too old" to do it-they lose their legitimacy with the youth they work with. I'm looking for stuff on median age, and on what individuals and agencies do to prepare the educators/workers for this. Also stuff on whether people leave jobs because of burnout, promotions, whatnot, and what kinds of things they go to do after.
(If not, I might have to do it...)
