Políticas de gestão e o trabalho dos professores no contexto capitalista neoliberal

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the configurations that teacher’s work assumes in the neoliberalism, under influence of management policies, mainly from the consagration of Brazilian ‘Democratical Management’ law, in the Brazilian Education policy. As methodology, it was used a bibliographical study, of qualitative nature, with Marxist focus. According to Marxism, labor is central in the human life and the production mode is a key-category to interpret it. Thus, firstly, it presented a historical overview of the capitalism for perceiving the configuration that work assumes in its different phases. After, it was discussed the work centrality in the human life and the contemporary concept of the proletrariat, based on Antunes (2005), that considers it as ‘classe-que-vive-do-trabalho’. This discussion was fundamental for, in the next section, discussing work and social class of teachers, specifically. Thus, it treated of analyzing the influence of neoliberalism on the education policies, which was transformed into management policies resulting in a deep teacher’s work reestruturation. Finally, it was discussed the ‘Democratical Management” principle. As result, it was identified that the management policies result in intensification and self- intensification of teacher’s work.