Caminhos para decifrar o adoecimento docente no sertão alagoano

Abstract

In view of the high rate of illness in the teaching profession, this work is based on a qualitative field research of a participatory nature with some teachers from cities in the upper sertão of Alagoas who have passed or are going through some health problem generated by their profession. . To this end, interviews were conducted with some teachers from some cities in the upper sertão of Alagoas who have passed or are going through this type of difficulty at work. As a theoretical contribution we used Nóvoa (1992 and 1995), Pacheco (1995), Noronha (2001) and others. The teaching profession is not part of the group of high-value professions in Brazil, so it ends up being invested less and less resources to improve the exercise of this function. Thus, teachers increasingly have to move in search of resources, continuing education, ideas and so on. to cope with what is required of them in and out of the classroom. The lack of recognition and good remuneration for this professional ends up leading to physical and psychological exhaustion that contributes to a poor development of his function due to the excess of activities necessary to have a good result of what he wants to be spent in the classroom. Therefore, this work is based on teachers who somehow ended up acquiring some health problem in the course of their job. We conclude that when analyzing the interviewed teachers, different experiences were noted between the two, however, it was also observed that there are different forms of teacher illness in early childhood teachers.