REINVENTANDO CAMINHOS: DESAFIOS E PERSPECTIVAS DO OFÍCIO DO PROFESSOR NA SOCIEDADE CONTEMPORÂNEA

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the Graduate Program in Education, Academic Master's Degree at Centro Universitário Mais, within the research line Education, Culture, Theory, and Pedagogical Processes. The proposed theme is the teaching profession in the neoliberal context. The central argument is that there is a need to reinvent the teaching profession in face of the complexity of education shaped by neoliberal logic and its impacts on the teaching profession. The research was conducted using a qualitative approach, taking into account an interpretive bibliographic review on the proposed theme. To support this argument, we developed three chapters. The first discusses the concepts of neoliberalism, teacher education, power, and social inequalities, drawing on researchers such as Larrosa, Rechia, Bourdieu, Passeron, Charlot, Laval, Libâneo, Freitas, Nóvoa, Saviani and Manzi. The second chapter investigates the impact of the business model on education, the teaching profession, working conditions, and professional devaluation, based on Dardot, Laval, Chaui, Goergen, Freitas, Libâneo, Shiroma, Evangelista, among others. In the third chapter, we discuss the need to reinvent the teaching profession, proposing the school as a space for formation, free time (skholé), with the teaching profession being guided by vocation, faith, love, and responsibility. This chapter is based on the reflections of Masschelein, Simons, Larrosa, Ferreira, Gandolfi, Manzi, among others. With these arguments, we conclude that reinventing the teaching profession is an urgent necessity to preserve the essence of this profession. This reinvention also requires collective actions, such as political valorization, functional investments in education, and ensuring dignified working conditions for teachers, among other mechanisms. It is a challenging process, as suggested by Larrosa, Masschelein, and Simons, as it requires commitment, care, and love for human formation, society, and the world