THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF TEACHING WORK IN HIGHER EDUCATION: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE YEARS (2020-2021)
This paper reflects on the precariousness of teaching work in higher education in Brazil and its relationship with some of the evidence cited by Bosi (2007). It consists of a bibliographic survey of this reality in the face of the changes that have occurred on the world stage in the years (2020-2021), due to the health crisis triggered by COVID-19. As a result, we found that teaching work, as well as that of other professionals, was greatly impacted during this period and that the precariousness of the work of these professionals in higher education presents a historical configuration being established in a scenario of privatization of the means of production of their work and in an environment marked by extreme competitiveness and productivity that collaborate to a context of illness and the strengthening of Distance Education and Remote Learning. The respective scenario is characterized by challenges, uncertainties and the illness of professionals, including teachers, revealing the devaluation and depersonalization of the teaching identity and where academic productivism and the uberization and alienation of work are ratified, in the face of conditions of vulnerability that reflect on the illness of professionals who are left to their own , impacting on other consequences that can be analyzed in the short, medium and long term. We conclude that the pandemic is not directly responsible for all these issues, but it does highlight a fertile ground for the financialization of higher education, increasing the precariousness, overexploitation and impoverishment of training with a utilitarian bias, affecting countries on the periphery and at the center of capitalism differently.
THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF TEACHING WORK IN HIGHER EDUCATION: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE YEARS (2020-2021)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5584352421116
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Palavras-chave: Higher education; precariousness of teaching work; academic productivism
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Keywords: Higher education; precariousness of teaching work; academic productivism
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Abstract:
This paper reflects on the precariousness of teaching work in higher education in Brazil and its relationship with some of the evidence cited by Bosi (2007). It consists of a bibliographic survey of this reality in the face of the changes that have occurred on the world stage in the years (2020-2021), due to the health crisis triggered by COVID-19. As a result, we found that teaching work, as well as that of other professionals, was greatly impacted during this period and that the precariousness of the work of these professionals in higher education presents a historical configuration being established in a scenario of privatization of the means of production of their work and in an environment marked by extreme competitiveness and productivity that collaborate to a context of illness and the strengthening of Distance Education and Remote Learning. The respective scenario is characterized by challenges, uncertainties and the illness of professionals, including teachers, revealing the devaluation and depersonalization of the teaching identity and where academic productivism and the uberization and alienation of work are ratified, in the face of conditions of vulnerability that reflect on the illness of professionals who are left to their own , impacting on other consequences that can be analyzed in the short, medium and long term. We conclude that the pandemic is not directly responsible for all these issues, but it does highlight a fertile ground for the financialization of higher education, increasing the precariousness, overexploitation and impoverishment of training with a utilitarian bias, affecting countries on the periphery and at the center of capitalism differently.
- Márcia Cristina Fragelli
