Atitudes e disposições dos professores em contexto de turbulência profissional

Abstract

The teaching profession is defined by periods of time with different ways of being in the teaching carrer, motivated by issues related to teacher identity, professional development, educational policies, teacher culture, school environment and the institution's organizational culture. The current crisis and lingering malaise on teachers leaves little doubt about the need to change the education system. In an attempt to understand the professional identity of teachers, their feelings and attitudes, we applied an open questionnaire with autobiographical features to public school teachers of the third cycle of basic education and of secondary education, focusing on carreer stages, its beginning, its most remarkable episode, and their current feelings on teaching. This was a qualitative study in order to try to understand the perceptions and representations of the surveyed teachers. The sample gathers 62 teachers and 186 texts produced by them. The information provided by teachers was organized into categories and subcategories, allowing the interpretation of the data. Evidence gathered convey the dissatisfaction and disillusionment of teachers towards the current educational crisis, seeming to let this crisis influence their professional practices, and encourage a detachment from improvement projects.

Date of Award	23 Jul 2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	José Matias Alves (Supervisor)