Banca de DEFESA: REGINA CELI FERREIRA DE LIMA

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STUDENT : REGINA CELI FERREIRA DE LIMA
DATE: 28/10/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY: a study on teacher health at the Federal University of São João del-Rei

KEY WORDS:

Education, University, Teaching Work, Professor Health, Health and Work.

PAGES: 161
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

The work scenario has been undergoing significant changes and the flexibilization imposed
by the new capitalism interferes in the professional life of many workers. For teachers, it is
no different. In the case of federal public higher education professors, their work in teaching,
research, extension and academic management, exclusive dedication hiring and other work
conditions and arrangements make up intense processes and organizations and long hours of
work. Based on this scenario and the readings of Sennet (2010), Antunes (2009), Codo
(1999), Clot (2006), Mancebo (2007) and Tardif (2014), among other authors, they share the
theoretical perspective discussed about the work scenario, its changes and how this context
reached the work of professors at the university and created risks to their health. In this sense,
this research is about the health of professors in higher education. The research follows a
qualitative approach and was carried out with the collaboration of professors from the Federal
University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ). The study aimed to investigate the health of
university professors considering their work environment, here specifically the context of the
UFSJ. In this perspective, we use documental research to analyze the history of the university
institution, its expansion and its proposal of health care for its servers, as well as using the
online questionnaire to survey the illnesses and absences of professors and their perceptions
about the generation of risks to your health in the work environment. Data were organized
based on similar themes, which were compiled into empirical categories, in addition to the
construction of graphs and tables, which facilitate the observation of information. The study
points out that the accelerated institutional growth walked out of step with the structure and
working conditions at the university, indicating fragile and precarious aspects in the
organization and work processes at the university. We also note that most cases of illness do
not generate leaves and the server support system does not register or monitor professors and
administrative technicians in order to consider the specifics of each job. The work
environment, in its physical and professional relationship conditions, indicates suffering,
illness and persistence of the professor, who resists the sickness at work. The results indicate
that the intensification of teaching work generated by the expansion of the UFSJ, added to the
flexibility of contemporary and multitasking/polyvalent work placed in education by
capitalism, in the university institutional environment studied, offer risks to the health of the
teaching worker, who lives with the overload, stress and other sufferings and illnesses. Thus,
health care for university professors requires a complex understanding of macrostructural and
micropolitical aspects of work processes in the context of Brazilian education in order to
approach the causal links between health and work in our society.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ATAUALPA LUIZ DE OLIVEIRA - IFSUDESTEMG
Presidente - 2117285 - CASSIA BEATRIZ BATISTA E SILVA
Interna - 1644417 - MARIA JAQUELINE DE GRAMMONT MACHADO DE ARAUJO