Teacher Malaise: concepts and analyses in the light of Discourse Analysis

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5157225300910

• Palavras-chave: Discourse Analysis. Teacher malaise. English teachers.

• Keywords: Discourse Analysis. Teacher malaise. English teachers.

• Abstract: Teacher malaise is one of the problems that permeate studies on Education in Brazil in postmodernity. The teacher is intrinsically linked to the devaluation, helplessness, and neglect of the profession. We focus on English language teachers, their particularities, and day-to-day practices. This study, arising from a master's thesis, aims to analyze the working conditions, complaints, and deficits of basic training that are present in the pedagogical practices of English teachers. This includes the public and private schools of the State of São Paulo. It also aims to interpret, from semi-structured oral interviews, some teacher malaise and its consequences on the physical and mental health of these subjects and, perhaps, on their daily pedagogical practices. Our analyses are made under the perspective of the Discourse Analysis of French Pecheuxtian Matrix, based on the contributions of founding researchers such as Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi, of Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, with Sigmund Freud as foremost scholar present in this work Sigmund Freud, of the Education sciences, with authors who research on teacher malaise and the identity of the subject-teacher, such as Rinaldo Voltolini and Selma Garrido Pimenta, the socio-historicity of the subject and its conditions of production.