<strong>Educational reform and the proletarization of teaching</strong> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v30i1.5099

Abstract

At first, this article aims to reconstruct historically the conformation process of the teaching profession, which goes from a vocational action to the configuration of an intentional and planned practice, and its possible professionalization. Secondly, it discusses the educational reforms implemented in the last decades of the 20th century and their impacts on the teaching profession. The neo-conservatives directives intensified the proletarization of teaching work, which, either public or from the private educational sector is responsible for contributing to the sucess of the reforms, although in a dimension characterized by disqualification of this line of work, deficient education, low salaries, lack of social prestige for the profession and sometimes ideological manipulation.