Abstract

CASTRO NETA, Abília Ana de; MOURA, Juliana da Silva; COSTA CARDOSO, Berta Leni  and  NUNES, Claudio Pinto. CONTEXTS OF TEACHER PRECARIOUSNESS IN BRAZILIAN EDUCATION. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2020, vol.10, e020037.  Epub Mar 30, 2022. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2020v10n0id1261.

This article aims to discuss the contexts of teacher precariousness in Brazilian education. For this, two teachers who work in basic education (public and private) in a municipality in the Southwest region of Bahia were investigated. The teachers participated in a semi-structured interview containing guidelines related to the precariousness of the teaching work. Indeed, the testimonies of the participants in line with the findings of the literature, denotes the precariousness of teaching work in Brazilian education, materialized, above all, by the way in which work is organized along the lines of contemporary capitalism. These testimonies show that the precariousness phenomenon considerably affects their place of work. Notwithstanding the flexibility, intensification, non-compliance with educational legislation, the flexibility of contractual forms, the loss of autonomy over the work process, accountability, competitiveness, deprofessionalization, degradation, education and the work of the working class a capital service, psychological suffering, illness and alienation of this professional category. This investigation is expected to contribute both to the academic debate and to the workers' political and union struggle against capitalist exploration and its consequences for the living and working conditions of those who need to sell their labor power to reproduce.

Keywords : Precariousness; Teaching Work; Neoliberalism.

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