Free online event.
To participate, you must register. Certificates will be issued upon completion of the virtual attendance list.

Purpose of the event
The observatory aims to establish itself as a permanent and open space to strengthen integration between universities, educational systems, unions and professional associations, around debates on teaching employment relations. It will be a space focused on debate, the exchange of experiences, political education, socialization and dissemination of information.

Audience
Basic and higher education teachers, undergraduate students, postgraduate students and representatives of trade unions.

Agenda

4th Meeting – Theme: Forms of collective struggle and resistance in the face of the neoliberal agenda and
conservative in education.

Summary: In the first three meetings of the Observatory, we discussed working conditions, precariousness, forms of management control and platformization. We analyzed the harmful effects, for teachers, of this work process marked by these conditions.
The purpose of this IV meeting is to discuss possible forms of struggle, strategies for confrontation and resistance, for building unity and strengthening collective organization.
What should be the task of unions, social movements and workers' collectives in this scenario? How can we strengthen and unify the collective struggle of teachers, which has been shaken by the fragmentation and neoliberal ideology present at all levels and modalities of education? How can we build forms of collective resistance by uniting educators, the school community and students? What are the limits and possibilities of collective struggle for professionals working in the public and private sectors at all levels of education?

Date: 17 / 06 / 2025
Time: 19h to 22h
Location: Google Meet

For warming up the debate, we invited the filmmaker and documentarian Carlos Pronzato, documentary director “Peace is over, this place is going to turn into Chile! Schools occupied in São Paulo (2015)."
Movie information: https://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-256550/

3rd Meeting – Theme: Teaching platforms and intensification of teaching work

Summary: Digital platforms adopted by education systems emerge as centralized control tools for teaching work and management. They are teaching platforms, with digital handouts, digital materials, ready-made classes, distance learning tools, among other mechanisms. The systematic use of this technological apparatus has promoted greater intensification, loss of autonomy, disqualification of teachers' work and their dismissal, as well as increased accountability. They are mechanisms that establish, in education systems and in public and private education institutions, a scheme of surveillance and punishment, with deleterious effects on the professional identity, collective organization, and health of teachers at all levels of education. Added to this precariousness resulting from the work process are the also precarious forms of hiring teachers and the simplified and cheap forms aimed at teacher training, with an emphasis on distance learning. These tools aimed at management and teaching are also commodities that open up new business opportunities for private companies controlled by financial capital. At this meeting, the observatory will discuss strategies and possible forms of resistance and struggle.

Date: 20 / 05 / 2025
Time: 19h to 21h30
Location: Google Meet

2nd Meeting – Theme: The meanings of teaching work and its challenges in the face of contemporary dismantling

Summary: In this meeting, the Teaching Work Observatory will discuss the effects of the current educational policy agenda and the management and control measures adopted in education systems and schools on working conditions. We will discuss the forms of precarious work and the impacts on people leaving the profession. However, it will be essential to discuss possible forms of resistance and struggle.

Date: 22 / 04 / 2025
Time: 19h to 21h30
Location: Google Meet

1º Meeting

Date: 18 / 03 / 2025
Time: 19h to 21h30
Location: Google Meet

Presented by:

• Work, Health and Subjectivity Study Group (NETSS)

Organizing committee:

• Cristiane Maria Oliveira Mendonca
• Fernando Bitencourt Lopes
• Lucilene Schunck Pisaneschi
• Monica Markunas
• Michelangelo Torres
• Port of Lima
• Gisiley Paulim Zucco Piolli
• Andrea Luciana Harada Sousa
• Iael de Sousa
• Mauro Sala
• Tania Barbosa Martins
• Flavia Teles dos Santos
• Erlando Reses
• Amanda Moreira

Responsible:

• Prof. Dr. Evaldo Piolli
• Prof. Dr. José Roberto Montes Heloani
• Prof. Dr. Iraci José Francisco