Um caminho para a identidade docente : do mal-estar à autonomia

Abstract

This work has as its theme the teacher identity, trying to analyze how does the teacher identity process in teachers of municipal working on Axis Baltazar and Sarandi neighborhood of the city of Porto Alegre in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The analysis seeks to know how to structure such identity in the face of situations of satisfaction and professional dissatisfaction, relating such situations to the concept of malaise and teacher welfare. Another aspect analyzed by the research is the relationship between professional identity and aspirations involved in the project of life of teachers on this aspect we can see a professional identity that can be built from childhood, through identification with family members in education process or by circumstances of life. Six teachers who work in the Elementary School of the Porto Alegre municipal network participated in the study, with a time of more than eight years teaching. The methodology adopted was the qualitative exploratory approach, using as a research instrument, a semi-structured interview, which was analyzed through Bardin's Content Analysis (1979). Qualitative analysis made it possible to construct four categories: malaise, well-being, professional choice and professional devaluation. The categories were analyzed jointly considering that teacher identity is a dynamic process that is constructed and (re) builds over the teaching experience, born of identifications made by the profession throughout life. The results show a predominance of the identification with the teaching profession if it starts in childhood or in the youth, aspect that takes shape in professional choice in the future. Regarding the situations of malaise in the teaching they are mostly originated by the feeling of impotence social vulnerability of children and youth and professional devaluation involving loss of social status, proletarianization and educational reforms that do not consider the actual conditions of work. However, welfare situations are related to the recognition of work through the students and to be at a long period in the same school provides positive changes in the lives of students. Among the theoretical framework underpinning this research stand out Erikson (1972), Nóvoa (1995), Bock, Furtado and Teixeira (1997), Codo (1999) and Jesus (2002) (2007).