Jim is 42 years old and has decided to retire from teaching high school. Having decided at age 35 to get an advanced degree, he has now completed a doctoral degree and plans to become a teacher education professor. Although it involved much work, he says, "At least I won't be an old teacher, now I'll be a young professor." According to Daniel Levinson, Jim is in which stage of a man's life?

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Keenan

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28 April, 11:22

Jim is 42 years old and has decided to retire from teaching high school. Having decided at age 35 to get an advanced degree, he has now completed a doctoral degree and plans to become a teacher education professor. Although it involved much work, he says, "At least I won't be an old teacher, now I'll be a young professor." According to Daniel Levinson, Jim is in which stage of a man's life?

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Mid-life transition.

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According to Daniel Levinson, Jim is in the mid-life transition stage. Daniel Levinson's theory of the seasons of a man's life describes universal stages that stretch from infancy to elderly life. Development does not stop, it continues through adult age. The transitional period marks the end of a person's stage as Jim's retirement from teaching high school and the beginning of a new stage in Jim's case as a professor.