Desistência como resistência: o professor e o governo de si mesmo

Abstract

Contrary to the discourses that sacralize teaching and the plenitude of teachers in their professional niche, the investigation derived from Alita's doctoral research project mobilizes narratives of teaching practices that reveal the emergence of professional demotivation in the daily lives of teachers. The discourse of giving up as a resistance strategy for teachers is the focus of this book. In it, Alita presents us with interviews with teachers who express the difficulties of teaching. Such confessions lead to the title of the conclusion: “To those who dare to teach”, taken up from a statement by Paulo Freire, decades ago: “being a teacher means daring to work in bad conditions”. The teachers' confessions are not seen as “speaking badly” of the profession, but as an announced refusal to resist in the classroom.