A Saúde Emocional do Professor de Línguas

Abstract

The emotional health of teachers is a growing focus of research in the areas of Education and Psychology in recent years teacher malaise has been linked to a chronic work-stress syndrome called Burnout. The present research has as its theme the health situation state of the teachers of Languages of Porto Nacional / TO. It is justified by the fact that the emotional aspects involved in the choices and the professional exercise are often neglected, contributing to the maintenance of a permanent and automatic complaint of teachers at schools. It is known that complaints are commonly associated with objective factors, such as precarious working conditions, low pay, and the rapid and continuous social transformations that teachers must adapt to in contemporary times; however, there are factors related to the collective imaginary that places the school in a place of order, control, non contradiction, "suturing" any possibility of confronting what may threaten this imaginary. In addition, it is essential to consider "job choice" as an aspect can directly influence the suffering / satisfaction at work. The research was developed by the professor and students of Developmental Psychology in the course Arts with English Habilitation / Porto Nacional of the Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT) through theoretical studies on the subject, elaboration, application and analysis of a questionnaire, with a sample of 20 teachers of Languages of the some public schools of Porto Nacional. Preliminary results indicate that half of the sample does not present symptoms of emotional exhaustion and only 04 present symptoms close to Burnout Syndrome.