Abstract
This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic and economic profile of teachers and analyze their professional characteristics, working conditions and workloads. This is a cross-sectional study of the Pro-Master project. We interviewed 978 primary school and high school teachers of the twenty state schools with more teachers of the city of Londrina/PR, between August 2012 and July 2013. Most of the teachers surveyed were female (68.5%) with mean age of 41.5 years (SD 10). As for professional features, 42.9% worked in up to two places and 64.2% teach at least two shifts. Issues such as remuneration, amount of students per class and infrastructure were reported as negative (bad/regular). In relation to workloads, physical, physiological and mental burdens, for more than half of them, greatly affect their health and working conditions. These factors signaled the working conditions and health of state teachers of Paraná, and can be useful to support the development of public policies to improve these aspects.
Keywords
teaching work; teacher; work conditions; workloads
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