Autonomia e trabalho docente: discurso de professores do ensino superior

Abstract

This dissertation has as objective investigates the relationship between autonomy and educational work in university education. It accomplishes a reflection on the autonomy concept, the characteristics of the Brazilian university education, the specificity of the teaching in that context and the possibilities and the limits for an autonomous work. The investigation falls back upon the studies developed by linked authors to a critical pedagogic conception and it was complemented by a field research, accomplished through an applied questionnaire to teachers of institutions of university education of different natures: universities (public and private), academical centers and isolated universities. In their answers, it is verified that the university education differs of the other teaching levels and the elements are indicated that favor or they constitute difficulties for an autonomous work and of good quality. Starting from a previous reading of the teachers' answers, three analysis categories were constituted: pedagogic autonomy, political autonomy and technical autonomy. With base in those categories, they identified aspects that allowed to enlarge the understanding of the investigated theme-problem. The teachers' speech confirms the idea that the presence of the autonomy in the educational work in university education favors the accomplishment of that work and contributes to perfect his/her quality.