O mal-estar docente: condições de trabalho e suas implicações

Abstract

The study of the relationship between the process of teaching job, the actual conditions under which it develops and the possible mental and physical illness of teachers constitute the challenge and a necessity to understand the health-disease process and teacher working conditions. Changes in the world economic and social context, particularly in recent decades, have had a direct impact on school and produced perverse effects on the lives of teachers, who see themselves pressured by society, towards fulfil the role that is not in line with reality. Requires them to provide quality teaching within a massive system based on competitiveness, often with human and material resources with low wages and precarious employment, an increase of functions, which are exacerbated contributes to a growing malaise among teachers, bolstered by the negative perspective that society will building many of these professionals, based, frequently, and in parameters, at least debatable. Lead the teacher a thorough self-criticism that redefine your role; carry out a thorough analysis of the present crisis, revealing its true magnitude; present viable solutions to overcoming the current impasse, are some of the objectives of this survey.