TEACHER WORK AND HEALTH IN BRAZILIAN HIGHER EDUCATION: A NECESSARY DEBATE
Teaching work. Health. Higher education. Postgraduate studies. Neoliberalism.
The object of discussion of this dissertation is teaching work in Higher Education, with a focus on Brazilian postgraduate studies, considering the possible relationships between working conditions and the health of these professionals in the neoliberal context. To address the proposed object of analysis, we problematize how the neoliberal context impacts the health of teachers in Higher Education, considering, including, diseases that go beyond the physical, directly related to the formation of subjectivities and the possible relationships with the health of these professionals. Based on these conditions, our objective is to present the reconfigurations of teaching work, with a focus on Brazilian postgraduate studies, in view of the new demands of the world of work, and the impacts on the health of teachers. Based on a bibliographical research with theoretical and methodological support based on a historical-social perspective of the Marxist method, we understand that teacher illness is not a given element in our society, but rather a result of the contradictions of the capitalist system, which justifies its reflection and relevance, especially in a social locus in which issues related to mental illness are naturalized, as is the case of Brazilian postgraduate studies. In addition to the bibliographical nature of the research, we propose to carry out an empirical study, based on the survey of articles published in journals in the area of Education on the relationship between teaching work in Higher Education and illness, based on publications by researchers linked to Postgraduate Programs in Education in Brazil, from 2016 to 2024, since this time frame constitutes a period of intensification of neoliberalism in Brazil, using, for this purpose, the Scielo database, through the definition of the following search keywords: teaching work, health, Higher Education, postgraduate studies, neoliberalism.