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STUDENT : DANIELE GOMES DE LIMA
DATE: 29/01/2021
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Plataforma virtual Google Meet
TITLE:

WORK, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL WORK: the interfaces of precariousness in the work of substitute teachers in Northeast Brazil

KEY WORDS:

 

Work, Substitute teacher; Social Work, Precariousness; University.

PAGES: 290
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Serviço Social
SUMMARY:

 

 

This thesis aims to investigate the particularities of the substitute professor's work in the context of face-to-face graduate courses in Social Work at federal universities in Northeast Brazil, taking into account the context of changes undertaken by educational policies proposed by neoliberal adjustments that it has enlarged the process of precariousness and intensification of teaching work. To this end, we seek to know the working conditions and the particularities of this type of employment contract in three federal public universities in the northeast: Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). The choice of the Northeast is justified considering our insertion in the Northeastern reality, in which we exercise the function of substitute teacher and in which, currently, we are in the condition of graduate student. We used as a criterion to define the sample of the universities the existence of undergraduate and graduate courses in Social Work with master's and doctorate degrees, which, in the Northeast, are in these three universities. The choice of the criterion for the existence of a postgraduate degree with a master's and doctoral degree was given to enable us to analyze how the precariousness of the professors' employment bonds impact the training not only in the undergraduate course in Social Work, but also in graduate school. Based on historical-dialectical materialism, as a method and theory, the research  is of  qualitative nature and aims to demonstrate the intrinsic relationship between work, social reproduction and the social complex of education, based on the Marxian and Lukacsian assumptions for the analysis of ontological genesis and the social function of the educational complex, as well as the limits it presents within the sociability of capital, analyzing the particularities of Brazilian society in the current conjuncture. To achieve the research objectives, the methodological procedures of bibliographic research, documentary research and field research were used. The field research was planned from the input of theoretical productions, preparing in advance the instrument for collecting empirical data, which included indicators that made possible an investigation of the problems foreseen in the research project. In carrying out this research, we also took into account the context of the pandemic of COVID-19, experienced worldwide, throughout the year 2020, which has required teachers a new configuration of their work process, via emergency remote teaching. Resulting from the impossibility of making changes in loco, due to the pandemic of the new corona virus, the strategy adopted it was to carry out them the changes over the internet, through Google Forms. Thus, there was a methodological reformulation of the initial proposal and it opted for the use of questionnaires. The semi-structured questionnaire was answered by 4 substitute professors: 2 from the Undergraduate course in Social Work at UFAL and 2 from UFRN. In relation to UFPE, it was not possible to carry out the questionnaire, because, due to the pandemic, the Undergraduate course in Social Work does not currently have a substitute professor in its teaching staff. The bibliographic, documentary and field research showed us that the teaching work has been constituted as an integral part of the marketing strategies with prevailing capital of the private over the public. In this context, the main tendencies of the substitute professor labor in Social Work courses, at 3 universities in Northeast Brazil, has the following main trends: working hours restricted to the teaching activities in the classroom; working hours, mostly of 40 hours per week and with many disciplines - making it impossible, therefore, to participate in these teachers in research and extension activities and consequently promoting the weakening of the tripod of education, research and extension; lack of autonomy in choosing subjects; designation in disciplines with different themes; lack of pedagogical support, lack of infrastructure; overload of disciplines and work; contract instability and the uncertainty of the future. These elements identified in the research are, therefore, part of the intensification and precarious work processes arising from the transformations in the world of work and the production restructuring that have been successful in the Brazilian scenario, especially since the 1990s, when the neoliberal offensive was installed. Bringing serious effects not only to the teaching work process, but to the quality of professional training in Social Work.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 307.164.894-49 - RITA DE LOURDES DE LIMA - UFRN
Interna - 1149518 - SILVANA MARA DE MORAIS DOS SANTOS
Externa ao Programa - 2314135 - ILKA DE LIMA SOUZA
Externa à Instituição - ERLENIA SOBRAL DO VALE - UECE
Externa à Instituição - IANA VASCONCELOS MOREIRA ROSADO - UERN
Externa à Instituição - IRIS DE LIMA SOUZA - UnP