Teaching work in higher education in times of crisis and reconfiguration

Abstract

The present work analyses the processes of intensification and precariousness on teaching work that has been taking place in the university field, with the Federal University of Goias (UFG) as the object of study. The goal is to discuss the clashes of teaching work front of public policy on higher education from 1990, specifically the policies of expansion and regulation of teaching work in higher education. As methodology, we realized a bibliographical, documentary and empiric research, being the latter effected by the means of interviews with academic managers and researchers of strictosensu graduation programs of different knowledge areas of UFG. Among other aspects, the research highlights that the processes of flexibilization, intensification and precariousness are present in the production of academic work from the institution, supporting certain alignment to the economic-productive demands. The inexorable fact is that there has been occurring alterations on the nature and character of teaching work, which are largely due to external demands, that has been amplifying the heteronomy on production, organization, management and purposes of the University.