Abstract

PENTEADO, Regina Zanella. Autonomy of teacher: an interdisciplinary perspective for the culture of caring for teachers a. ETD [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.1, pp.234-254. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v20i1.8649228.

Isolated studies in several fields show that teachers are submitted to a process of devaluation, precariousness, suffering and illnesses in work. The articulation of knowledge that is being produced in different areas is urgent, in order to subsidize investments in new spaces to discuss care in the field of education, in the culture of teaching. This paper searches for a way to understand the personal autonomy of teachers that enables a relation with the existing care giving measures focused on teachers. The study shows some of the ways in which the personal autonomy of teachers is interpreted in the fields of Healthcare and Education: on one side, the configuration of illness risks and the working teachers’ health protection/promotion; on the other, the professionalization of teachers. The network of the relations between personal autonomy and care is woven from strings that unite aspects of the working teacher’s health, the actual work of teachers and professionalization of teaching. The issue of personal autonomy may represent an axis for interdisciplinarity in attention towards teachers and a key to discuss a culture of caring for the health of teachers in the educational environment. The theme of care has potential in articulating discussions that question the work of teachers, their education as such, the process of professionalization of teaching and also if the integral and interdisciplinary nature of healthcare attention of teachers. A culture based on caring for teachers is needed in the field of education, and the issue of personal autonomy may contribute towards developments in making this reality.

Keywords : Education; Teacher Working Conditions; Teachers’ Health; Knowledges of Teachers; Teacher´s; Teaching Skills.

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