Work and illness of elementary school teachers from the Education Department of the Distrito Federal
Teaching work; Sickness; Public Policies.
This study is linked to the research line Teaching Profession, Curriculum and Evaluation - PDCA, of the Post-Graduation Program in Education of the Faculty of Education of the University of Brasilia (FE/UnB) and the Study and Research Group on the Formation and Performance of Teachers/Pedagogues (GEPFAPe). The theme of this work can be defined as Work and illness among Basic Education teachers of the Secretariat of Education of the Federal District. The study is based on work as a fundamental process of human humanization. It analyzes the transformations that have occurred in the world of work and the influence of the capitalist mode of production that stresses the teaching work. In this sense, we understand that this production mode intensifies the work performed by teachers. In this perspective, the dialectical historical materialism was adopted as a method, because it allows a view of the totality in the analysis of the phenomena, whose critical-emancipating perspective allows the apprehension of the abstract real. Therefore, we sought the essence of the concrete reality of the teachers' work and illness. Given these contradictions, we posed the following question: What are the relationships between work and illness among teachers in the Federal District? In this way, the goal that guided this ongoing investigation is to understand the factors of illness linked to the history of the teaching work, revealing the contradictions of this relationship. To do so, we used as theoretical support some authors who will subsidize the discussions of this study, thus, we organized the references in four thematic axes, as follows: (i) methodological path Marx (1978, 2013), Kosik (1976), Cury (2000), Paulo Netto (2011) Frigotto (2002); Tonet (2018), Paulo Netto (2011), Gamboa (2012); (ii) the state of knowledge; iii) labor and human sociability Lukács (2012, 2018), Marx (19671974, 1982), Braz and Netto (2008), Engels (2013), labor and its historical course Pochmann (1999), Antunes (2006), Mészaros (2002), Apple (1987, 1988), labor, social class and gender Garcia Hypólito, Vieira (2005), Enguita (1991), Hypólito (2020), Apple (1995), Hypólito and Grishcke (2018), intensification of teaching work Dal Rosso (2008), Marx (1985), Apple (1987), Kuenzer and Caldas (2016); iv) impacts of restructuring on teachers' work and health ; from malaise to burnout syndrome Esteve (1999), Lapo and Bueno (2001) and teacher suffering and illness Saviani (2012, 2020), Libâneo (2020), Assunção and Oliveira (2009) Codo (2006), Chiodi and Facci (2011). In the documentary research we will analyze the guiding documents of the Secretariat of Education of the Federal District, reports and documents that record the absences of teachers due to illness. We propose as methodological tools: the state of knowledge, document analysis, interviews with administrative staff of the Secretariat of Education who work in promoting the health of the staff, with teachers and with a representative of the union. We will apply questionnaires via google forms for the maximum of regional teaching.