Health and Teacher Education: Investigating Pedagogy Undergraduate Programs at Public Universities in Baixada Fluminense
Teacher training, teacher illness, teaching practices, Baixada Fluminense.
This research is based on the observation that many teachers experience extreme exhaustion, burnout syndrome, and other psychological disorders without receiving sufficient institutional support. In this context, the need for public policies aimed at promoting healthier and more sustainable school environments becomes evident. Initial and continuing teacher education is therefore considered an essential instrument to strengthen teachers and better prepare them to face the challenges of the profession. The main objective is to analyze how the issue of teacher health is addressed in Pedagogy undergraduate courses offered by public institutions in the Baixada Fluminense region. This is a qualitative study, grounded in theoretical references from the field and in the analysis of the curricula of Pedagogy courses offered by public universities in the region — the Faculdade de Educação da Baixada Fluminense of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FEBF/UERJ), the Instituto de Educação (IE), and the Instituto Multidisciplinar (IM) of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), located in the Seropédica and Nova Iguaçu campuses. In addition to the curricula, the analysis of the Pedagogical Course Projects (PPCs) is fundamental to understanding how training processes consider the factors that affect teachers’ mental health and working conditions, contributing to the development of a more critical, humanized, and professionally valued teacher education committed to educators’ well-being