Banca de DEFESA: EBER MARTINS MAIA
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DATE: 01/07/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: https://meet.jit.si/liepe-2-2
TITLE:
NEOLIBERALISM AS MANAGEMENT OF TEACHERS' PSYCHIC SUFFERING IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF NOVA IGUAÇU
KEY WORDS:
Keywords: Neoliberalism. Teaching labor. Teacher health. Teacher malaise.
PAGES: 150
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos da Educação
SUMMARY:
This dissertation examines the relationships between work and teacher health in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, a city in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro state. The study is part of a collective research project coordinated by LIEPE (Laboratory for Research on State, Power and Education) in partnership with SEPE-RJ and SINPRO-Rio, entitled "Work and Health of Basic Education Teachers in Rio de Janeiro State," which investigates how working conditions affect educator health in public (municipal and state) and private basic education networks. The study adopts the perspective that neoliberalism is not merely an economic model that restructures the State and public policies, but also a doctrine that permeates all spheres of human sociability, subordinating them to market rationality and constituting a new subject: the enterprise-self. The formation of this new subject requires substantial state intervention, making education a strategic sector, with educational counter-reforms being an expression of this project. In this context, schools and education are co-opted by market ideology through managerialism, which controls educational and teaching labor by imposing a neo-technicist pedagogy. This dynamic progressively reduces teacher autonomy while individually holding educators accountable for student performance on standardized external assessments – mechanisms that transform education into metrics. The study's central hypothesis, aligned with the collective research project, is that there is an ongoing process of transformation in the subsumption of teaching labor, which is related to changes and intensification of teacher malaise. From a critical perspective on the process of blaming individuals for their own health issues, the study seeks to reposition the deepening of malaise, suffering, and illness in relation to capitalist modes of production. The research aims to investigate the effects of neoliberal counter-reforms in education and their impacts on working conditions, malaise, suffering, and teacher illness, focusing on a municipal public school in Nova Iguaçu where the author works as a teacher. The methodology consists of a literature review on themes related to working conditions and teacher health, cross-referenced with data collected through the online "Teacher Survey," used to analyze municipal network data in comparison with the specific Nova Iguaçu municipal school that is the focus of this dissertation. Based on analysis of previous research, reviewed literature, and "Teacher Survey" data, the study concludes there is an intensification of teaching labor precarization, increased loss of autonomy, and consequences for the expansion of malaise, with mental health issues being one manifestation. The study argues there is increased subsumption of teaching labor to capital; however, teachers themselves constitute an obstacle to this process. The worsening of teacher malaise is an expression of this resistance.
Keywords: Neoliberalism. Teaching labor. Teacher health. Teacher malaise.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1941477 - RODRIGO DE AZEVEDO CRUZ LAMOSA
Interno - 2111255 - RODRIGO COUTINHO ANDRADE
Externo à Instituição - CLAUDIO FERNANDES DA COSTA - UFF
Externo à Instituição - REGIS EDUARDO COELHO ARGÜELLES DA COSTA - UFF