À procura de pertença profissional: as interfaces do trabalho nos discursos de egressos(as) do curso de Letras Inglês da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Abstract

From the discourse analysis of graduated people from Languages English Course of Santa Maria Federal University, since 2008, this study aimed at investigating the interfaces of work, job, profession and social class for teachers of English nowadays, taking into account the capitalist context. That date was chosen because it was when there was the first graduated group on simple teaching of English, since the reformulation of this Course. Many times the graduated people on English face labor instability of their work conditions that result in a crisis related to their sense of professional belonging. In that sense, the main objective of this study is observing manifestations and spaces of resistance in search for autonomy and, consequently, professional belonging of those workers. In order to do that, it used a qualitative case study, with approach on dialectical materialism. The data were collected from interviews with the just graduated people which were analyzed, through Content Analysis approach (BARDIN, 2010). It was concluded that graduation on Languages and autonomy are the main attributes considered by the graduated for feeling as belonging to a professional group.