TEACHING WORK IN SÃO PAULO STATE

ANALYSIS OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS (1996 TO 2018)

Abstract

The present article presents the results of a bibliographic quali-quantitative research, which
analyzed a group of 134 studies, thesis and dissertations, produced in the main Education Graduate
Programs in the state of São Paulo which focused on teachers’ work. The research considered the time
frame from 1996 to 2018, which coincides with the implementation of neoliberal reform measures in the
public education system of the state São Paulo. The objectives of this article are: a) analyze the academic
production – thesis and dissertations – related to teachers’ work given the educational reform in the state
in said period – 1996-2018; b) identify the steps and types of teaching approached in the thesis and
dissertations; c) map the main Graduate Programs in which the studies are being produced; d) recognize
the main methodological approaches used; e) identify concept of teachers’ work used in these academic
works; f) present the main analytical axis produced in that period. The result of this study presented the
effect in school’s daily life of a policy that, for years, has been implemented from the top to the bottom,
with actions such as the curricula standardizations and the regulation through external evaluations.
Measurements which do not leave teachers’ work unscathed and that, besides altering their possibilities
of establishing an autonomous process, negatively modified their work conditions and relations. The
main result of this investigation indicates a growth and consolidation of teachers’ work as a specific field
of research in the education area