TEACHERS UNIONISM IN THE YEARS 90: AN OUTLOOK OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BRAZIL-FRANCE

• Grant number: 16/01113-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 16, 2016
• End date: January 15, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Pires de Paula
• Grantee: Ricardo Pires de Paula
• Host Investigator: Andre Robert
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Lumière Lyon 2, France

Abstract

We intend in this study to develop a comparative analysis between the Brazilian teacher unionism and French teacher unionism during the 1990s. Despite the historical, socioeconomic and cultural particularity between the countries, teaching unions experienced a general crisis in the West in their organization and ways of working. The introduction of neo-liberal content of reforms such as the privatization of education and the adoption of precarious forms of employment and stay at work resulted in challenges for union organization of teachers. Thus, we intend to identify the main trends that the teaching unions crisis, forms of organization and mobilization in a context of flow of activities and mass protests of teachers. Furthermore, we aim to raise the mainstream interpretation of the teaching unions trajectory in Brazil and in France, especially in the Brazilian case, the APEOESP unions (Teachers Union of Official Education of the State of São Paulo - Basic Education) , the ADUNESP (Union of UNESP of teachers, the ADUSP (USP teachers 'Union) and ADUNICAMP (UNICAMP teachers' Union - the three organizations representing the staff unions of the São Paulo public universities) and in the French case, the SNES (Syndicat National des Enseignements of Second Degré - representing secondary school teachers), the SENESup (Syndicat National de l'Enseignement Supérieur - higher education).