O Discurso Sobre o Trabalho Docente em Textos Jornalísticos: Sentido, História e Memória

Abstract

This work aims to contribute to the discussion about the role of teachers in the brazilian educational context. Specifically, based on the understanding that discourse is a human praxis that can only be understood from the knowledge of the social contradictions that enable its objectification, we seek to unveil the conditions of production that enabled the emergence of discourse about teaching work, memory that returns producing meaning effects that contribute to the reproduction of the vision of teaching work as priesthood, blaming the teacher for the poor performance of public schools in the national exams. For that, we will use the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Discourse Analysis proposed by Michel Pêcheux (1988, 1990), adding an interlocution with Bakhtin (2006) and Lukács (2013). From these assumptions, we will analyze the ideological determinations producing meaning in discursive sequences of editorials of some brazilian newspapers. This theoretical perspective allows the unveiling of contradictions and ideological clashes that determine the sense effects of the materialities. It also allows us to observe that the discourse materialized in editorials corresponds to the ideological formation of Capital, with a conservative and reactionary discursive formation, which is characterized by recriminating the teaching strike and recalling the discourse of the teacher's mission / vocation.