Professors of sociology: relations and working conditions

Author(s)

Ana Lucia Lennert

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação
• Defense date: 2009-07-21

Examining board members

Aparecida Neri de Souza; Dirce Djanira Pacheco e Zan; Dulce Maria Pompêo de Camargo; Amaury Cesar Moraes; Eloisa de Mattos Höfling

• Advisor: Aparecida Neri de Souza

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the relations and working conditions of teachers graduated in Social Sciences. To do so, we analyze both the trajectories and professional training of teachers who were, in 2008, ministering classes in the secondary level of public schools in the city of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil). Initially, we sought to discover how Sociology, as a discipline taught in the high school, has historically evolved, to link that with the history of the discipline, the market and the relations of teaching. It was then interviewed a representative sample of teachers - effective, temporary and without contracts of employment - that completed undergraduate courses in Social Science - inquiring about their inclusion in the labor market in the field of education; the conditions under which teachers work were performed; in which disciplines they worked during the absence of Sociology in the high school curriculum; how and what professional paths were built; what are the representations that these teachers built about the work of teaching Sociology for young people from different social segments. The research is included in the theoretical and methodological framework of the Sociology of Labor and Education, where the analysis of social processes is constructed from the concepts of interdependence and figurations, and the trajectories (professional and or vocational training) are understood as marks of the range of social provisions (thought and action) acquired along the training process of these teachers. (AU)