O processo de adoecimento de professores da Rede Estadual de Educação (Marechal Cândido Rondon-PR, 2010 a 2024)

Abstract

This research aims to problematize and interpret the process of teacher illness within the state public education system between 2010 and 2024, focusing on Marechal Cândido Rondon, in the western region of Paraná, Brazil. The study prioritizes the personal and professional trajectories of teachers, including their educational backgrounds and the meanings attributed to their choice of the teaching profession. It considers the implications of illness—whether arising from working conditions or external factors—and the impacts generated by leaves of absence and functional readaptation processes. Within the analyzed time frame, there is a clear intensification of neoliberal and capitalist policies and practices within the public sector, whose consequences directly affected school routines. This context contributed to the deepening of the precarization of teaching work, marked by exhausting routines, excessive bureaucracy, constant demands, and the increasing devaluation of the profession. The sources used—especially oral sources—offer a critical and sensitive perspective on how these transformations impacted teachers' daily lives, highlighting the direct effects of policies implemented by the State Department of Education (SEED) on working conditions and on teachers’ physical and emotional health.