Docência e Resistência: mal-estar e niilismo dos professores de Biologia da rede estadual da cidade de Jataí

Abstract

This research was carried out in the city of Jataí - GO, with high school Biology teachers, from the state school system. The objective was to understand how these teachers have (re)signified the exercise of teaching work in the face of teacher malaise conditions towards resistance. It is a qualitative case study research that was used as a data collection instrument the semi-structured interview, with a total of six teachers. In the discussion of the research problem, we dialogued with productions about teacher malaise, at national and international levels; we analyzed how teacher malaise can manifest itself as nihilism and how the Bill No. 7.181/2014, entitled Escola sem Partido, contributes to the condition of teachers' nihilism and malaise. The results obtained and the conclusion are under construction. The results found show that factors such as excessive workload, the pressures of external tests, such as Saego and Saeb, and the determinations of governments empty the sense of teaching exposing teachers to the emptying of the sense of teaching. The mechanisms of (res)signification of the profession present aspects of fragility, illness, conformism, and passivity, which was interpreted, from Nietzsche (2009), as illness of the teachers' will to power. No resistance mechanisms were identified, in the sense of coping with reality, but resilience for acceptance and adaptation to reality. As an educational product, a channel was created on the YouTube platform entitled Docência e Resistência (Teaching and Resistance), as a space for collective communication and sharing of challenges faced by different teachers.