O plano de cargos, carreira e remuneração do magistério público do município de Araguaína: docentes sindicalizados e sindicalizadas no contexto da luta pela melhoria da qualidade do ensino

Abstract

The research developed in the Professional Graduate Program in Education in the area of concentration Teaching and Learning, inserted in the research line Methods and Techniques of Teaching and Learning in Basic Education. The investigations are the result of the activities of the Laboratory for Studies on Teaching Careers (LECDOC) of the Federal University of Tocantins. The bibliographic research and documentary analysis under the critical-dialectical focus adopts a qualitative approach through the methodology of thematic oral history. A questionnaire was applied to 67 unionized teachers and, in particular, within the aforementioned group of respondents, six teachers with union militancy who teach in the municipal school system were selected to participate in the semi-structured interviews. The research aims to develop a union training program that relates the structuring of the teaching career with the pedagogical dimension of the teaching work based on the understanding of teachers unionized to SINTET, linked to the municipal education network of the municipality of Araguaína, in relation to the limits and possible imbrications of the Career Plan in the organization of pedagogical work, in continuing education and expectations about professional development. In this sense, the present research characterizes the Position, career and remuneration plan (PCRP) of the public teaching of the Municipality of Araguaína, Tocantins; analyzes the PCRP from the perspective of valuing the municipal public teaching; analyzes the meaning that the unionized teacher indicates regarding the impact of the PCRP in the process of valorization, training and professionalization of teachers; dimensions the opinion of the unionized teacher about the role of the PCRP in improving the quality of education offered in the municipality and elaborates a union training program that relates the structuring of the teaching career with the pedagogical dimension of teaching work in the context of continuing education based on research. The research reveals that teachers understand the PCRP as primordial and directing the performance of teachers in all educational spaces and in the struggle for quality of teaching and better working conditions. Finally, a Pedagogical and Union Training Proposal is presented to be developed over a period of two years. In this way, the present research intends to collaborate in the expansion of the engagement of teachers in the teachers' union movement.