Implications of educational policies in the subjective experiences of teachers working in public schools

Abstract

The educational policies implemented in Brazil since the 1990s have been producing significant effects on the restructuring of the teaching job. The carried out study aimed to analyze the implications of these educational policies in the subjective experiences of teachers from public schools in the municipality of João Pessoa. For that, we have used observations of the activities and of the constitution of amplified communities researched. The analysis of the materials produced was carried out following the dialogic perspective of the discourse. We have verified that the educational programs, in general, are seen by the teachers as immediate and palliative measures, which do not effectively solve education and teaching quality problems. They report that these programs, instead of favoring their job, have generated overload, making it difficult the accomplishment of their activity, and also causing implications to their health. We have observed, however, that, despite the difficulties found in the work situations, the teachers, through their creative mobilization, carry out several ways of activity regulation, giving new shapes to the work and developing different ways of articulating themselves to it.