Serviço social e privatização do ensino – a precarização do trabalho docente nas instituições privadas de ensino superior na Zona da Mata Mineira

Abstract

This work analyses the social assistants work conditions teaching in private institutions in Zona da Mata – Minas Gerais. Seven professors were interviewed, who work in the IPES (Higher education private institutions) of the region, by means of a semi-structured guide and with a qualitative approach, dealing with the ways, the working conditions and the teaching work itself, expressed through the speech and the social assistants professors´ reflexions.Such analyses retakes, in general ,the social changing which took place in Brazil from the 90´s, the State counter-Reformation as well as the University Counter Reformation. It also brings up the higher education commoditization process in the country and its particularities in Minas Gerais, mainly in Zona da Mata, the field research area. As analyses reference we consider the social assistants formation project in Diretrizes Curriculares elaborated upon Associação Brasileira de Ensino e Pesquisa em Serviço Social (ABEPSS). Finally, we present the tension between the real teaching work conditions in the IPES and the establishment of the Social Service professional project formation.