Volume 50, 2018
Philosophy of Education
Magda Maria Colao, Siqueira Janes Teresinha Fraga
Pages 39-43
Professors Who Study and Work
Challenges to an Emancipatory Consideration
This text aims at being a theoretical reflection upon working and studying conditions of undergraduate students of pedagogy, in two Brazilian community colleges. The contradiction is manifested between the work and training of teachers-students and influences their social practices in colleges. They express these working and studying conditions when they talk about the available time for studies, and show us there is a diaeresis of social practice. We established the “cultural common” offered by universities or colleges is absorbed in a fragmented and alienated way due to material and academic challenges they face to keep on studying. Teachers-students live an obscure political-social reality, which influences their practices, turning them into naïve professionals, whose approaches are based on short-term objectives. This reality does not help them fight for essential transformations in society and education. We ask: What is the purpose of their work and study? The development of a human consciousness in all dimensions work and study should provide or merely a pursuit of a diploma so they can start working?