Salud y trabajo docente - Una investigación cualitativa

Abstract

Qualitative research where the perceptions of teachers of Basic Cycle in public schools in Uruguay about working conditions and environment and their link with health were analyzed. Risk factors and job satisfaction were identified from the theoretical approach of Field, Habitus and Capital of Bourdieu in dialogue with the analytical framework of Conditions and Work Environment (CyMAT). In a first stage, directors of four selected centers were interviewed and the actions of teachers in the institutions visited were observed. Secondly, in-depth interviews were conducted with effective teachers with more than four years of exercise and less than twenty years old from different sectors of knowledge Social Sciences, Art and Expression and Experimental Sciences. The main technique used was the in-depth interview whose narrative product was subjected to the analysis of conventional content from which six analytical dimensions were created: a: Difficulties found in the high school to comply with educational planning; b: The problem of spaces; c: The problem of time, d: Satisfaction with work, e: Psychic and physical workload and f: Evaluation as a problem.