The profession of a focused teacher: some factors that hard the adherence to the teaching career

• Autor(a) principal: Martins Neto, Rafael Izidoro
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Cláudio Alves
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Education (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciEduc/article/view/51436
• topic: teaching; teaching career; social value of the teaching career.; docencia; carrera docente; valor social de la carrera docente.; docência; carreira docente; valor social da carreira docente.

The present work, seeking to identify evidence of the (un)valorization of the teaching professional career, carried out a survey with students of the third year of high school and collected data about the understanding that these young people had about the teaching career and their choices for the process selective approaching. This research is justified by the fact that the official indexes of the School Census of Higher Education point to a progressive drop in the number of students recently graduated from high school who choose to enter undergraduate courses at educational institutions, whether public or private. Students from two private schools and two public schools in the city of Bambuí, in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais, were interviewed, with a total of 7 classes and 128 students interviewed. To make this study possible, the researchers applied a questionnaire, the data being analyzed by an exploratory qualitative approach. The results show that the majority of young people interviewed do not consider the teaching profession attractive and that this should not be the choice for further studies in higher education. As evidence of this position, are the ideas related to the teaching profession: poor working conditions, low pay, lack of social recognition, disrespect on the part of the students, among others, although these same young people recognize in the teacher the potential of social and political transforming agent.