Abstract
Objective:
to analyze the methodological approach “Workshops on workers’ health” and its results regarding the relationship between health and teaching in public universities.
Methods:
social study of qualitative, pedagogical and participatory approach. “Workshops on workers’ health” are spaces where workers and researchers discuss the work and health relation in accordance with participative research, Freire’s pedagogy and Workers’ Health concepts, especially the Workers’ Model of Knowledge and Gramsci’s theory. Four meetings were held with eight professors of the same institute in a federal university situated in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Results:
epistemologically, important subjects concerning the work and health of teachers were analyzed, namely: university infrastructure precarization and teaching work conditions; collective relations and conflicts; teacher work meanings and ambivalence; health complaints and work intensification.
Conclusion:
this study enabled the development of a dialogical and participatory methodological approach. Although this study was limited to a small group, the method enabled the identification and analysis of important aspects of work and health of teaching at the university, showing the transformations in university work and indicating the need for studies of larger scope.
Keywords:
occupational health; teaching; public university; participatory methodology; work precarization