Free online event.
To participate, you must register. Certificates will be issued upon completion of the virtual attendance list.
Purpose of the event
The observatory aims to establish itself as a permanent and open space to strengthen integration between universities, educational systems, unions and professional associations, around debates on teaching employment relations. It will be a space focused on debate, the exchange of experiences, political education, socialization and dissemination of information.
Audience
Basic and higher education teachers, undergraduate students, postgraduate students and representatives of trade unions.
Agenda
8th Meeting of the Teaching Work Observatory
Topic: Between Dismantling and Resistance: Administrative Reform and the Future of Public Education.
Date: November 27 of 2025
Working Hours: 19h at 22h
Registrations: 20/11 to 27/11
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The Administrative Reform proposed by Constitutional Amendment Proposal No. 38/2025 expresses the continuity of the neoliberal project of reconfiguring the Brazilian State, converting politics into management and social rights into commodities. Under the rhetoric of efficiency, governance, and austerity, a process of institutional dismantling, precariousness of public work, and subordination of educational policies to market logic is concealed. This is a counter-reform that deepens the depoliticization of the State and legitimizes inequality as a natural product of technology. By reducing the public servant to a mere target-setter, the focus shifts...
The axis of public action shifts from redistribution to control, establishing an accounting and authoritarian rationality. This discussion seeks to problematize the effects on public education and the possibilities of...
Resistance, rebuilding the political meaning of the common good and collective action in the face of the advance of servitude.
neoliberal.
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Prof. Ms. Cacau Pereira
Cacau Pereira is a lawyer specializing in Public Law and Supplementary Pension Plans. Master's degree.
in Education. Researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Political and Social Studies (Ibeps).
7th Meeting of the Teaching Work Observatory
Topic: Managerialism, accountability and moral harassment in educational organizations.
Date: October 30, 2025
Working Hours: 19h at 22h
Registrations: 20/10 to 30/10
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The meeting will address how managerialism, accountability, and meritocracy, consolidated in corporate education reforms, have intensified control over teaching and undermined relationships of trust and cooperation between teachers, administrators, and students. The Teaching Work Observatory has been monitoring the harmful effects of this management model, inspired by market logic, and has pointed out that this accountability, asserted through vertical and horizontal relationships, is increasingly authoritarian and punitive. Among the most evident expressions of this phenomenon are the new bureaucratic mechanisms and devices for controlling teaching and the rampant platformization of education. The large-scale assessment strategy, structured around the accountability mechanism—which mobilizes goals and ranking processes—has had a direct impact on interpersonal and social relationships in the educational field, in addition to intensifying cases of bullying and illness among education professionals.
Guest:
- Prof. Dr. José Roberto Heloani
He is a Full Professor at the School of Education at UNICAMP. He holds a PhD in Psychology from PUC-SP, a postdoctoral degree in Communication from USP, and a postdoctoral degree in Organizational Theory from UNICAMP. He holds degrees in Law (USP) and Psychology (PUC-SP), and a Master's degree in Business Administration from FGV-SP. He is the coordinator and founder of the Work, Health, and Subjectivity Study Group (NETSS/UNICAMP). He conducts research on moral and sexual harassment, discrimination, and workplace ethics. With Margarida Barreto, he founded the first Brazilian website on moral harassment and the Latin American Network to Combat Workplace Harassment and Other Manifestations of Violence in the Workplace.
6th Meeting of the Teaching Work Observatory
Topic on: Distance education at all levels of education and its implications for teaching work, teacher and student training.
Date: 25 September 2025
Working Hours: 19h at 22h
Registrations: 18/09 to 25/09
Menus: In the next meeting, we will examine the educational legislation for the period 1996 to 2025 focused on Distance Learning (EaD), with special attention to Decree No. 12.456, of May 19, 2025. Based on this analysis, we will seek to understand how this set
The regulatory framework has driven significant transformations in the organization of education and favored the expansion of this modality in private higher education, especially in undergraduate programs, generating significant impacts on teaching and teacher training. We also intend to discuss the
forms of distance learning in higher education and basic education. In the case of basic education, the phenomenon of distance learning appears in flexible ways to fulfill the workload of the new high school and EJA (Youth and Adult Education) and/or coupled with platform-based learning. We hope to discuss the forms of precarious work and the deskilling of teaching, as well as the effects on
training of higher education and basic education students.
5th Meeting of the Teaching Work Observatory
Topic: Legal action in the defense and achievement of rights for education workers.
Order date: August 28, 2025 – Thursday
Open Hours: 19 am - 22 pm
Registrations: 18/08 to 28/08
MenusIn the Observatory's first meetings, we discussed working conditions, precariousness, forms of management control, and platformization. We analyzed the harmful effects of this work process characterized by these conditions on teachers. In the fourth meeting, we discussed forms of struggle, strategies for confrontation and resistance, building unity, and strengthening collective organization in the face of the neoliberal and conservative agenda in education. In this fifth meeting, the Observatory will continue this theme, emphasizing legal action in defense of education workers' rights and its effectiveness for worker organization, collective resistance, and struggle.
Guests
Alexandre Tortonella Mandi
Master in Economic Development from the Institute of Economics at Unicamp, in the area of Social and Labor Economics (2014). Graduated in Legal and Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (2005). Specialist in Constitutional Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (2008). Specialist in Economics in Labor Economics and Trade Unionism, from CESIT/IE at Unicamp (2009). Works as a legal advisor to municipal public servants, particularly regarding
Education. He is a legal advisor to the "We Are All Teachers" movement, which advocates for early childhood education and the fight for the proper classification of female civil servants within the teaching profession. He is a legal advisor to the Occupied Factories Movement, following the emblematic Flaskô case.
Gabriel Franco da Rosa
Lawyer and university professor, with a master's degree in Philosophy and General Theory of Law from the University of São Paulo (2014) and a PhD in Labor Law and Social Security from the University of São Paulo (2019). He has a distinguished professional record working with labor unions and associations. He is a researcher in the Labor and Capital Research Group at the University of São Paulo Law School.
Organizing committee:
- Cristiane Maria Oliveira Mendonca
- Lucilene Schunck Pisaneschi
- Monica Markunas
- Michelangelo Torres
- Port of Lima
- Gisiley Paulim Zucco Piolli
- Andrea Luciana Harada Sousa
- Iael de Sousa
- Mauro Sala
- Tania Barbosa Martins
- Flavia Teles dos Santos
- Erlando Reses
- Amanda Moreira
- Aline Duarte da Cunha
- Julia Do Prado Souza
- Robernilson Melgueiro de Lima
- Diego Vilanova Rodrigues
- Tatiane Lima
- Prof. Dr. Iraci José Francisco
Responsible:
- Prof. Dr. Evaldo Piolli (General Coordination)
- Prof. Dr. José Roberto Montes Heloani
4th Meeting – Meeting of the Teaching Work Observatory
Topic: Forms of collective struggle and resistance against the neoliberal and conservative agenda in education.
Menus: In the first three meetings of the Observatory, we discussed working conditions, precariousness, forms of management control, and platformization. We analyzed the harmful effects of this work process characterized by these conditions on teachers.
The purpose of this IV meeting is to discuss possible forms of struggle, strategies for confrontation and resistance, for building unity and strengthening collective organization.
What should be the task of unions, social movements and workers' collectives in this scenario? How can we strengthen and unify the collective struggle of teachers, which has been shaken by the fragmentation and neoliberal ideology present at all levels and modalities of education? How can we build forms of collective resistance by uniting educators, the school community and students? What are the limits and possibilities of collective struggle for professionals working in the public and private sectors at all levels of education?
Date: 17 / 06 / 2025
Time: 19h to 22h
Location: Google Meet
For warming up the debate, we invited the filmmaker and documentarian Carlos Pronzato, documentary director “Peace is over, this place is going to turn into Chile! Schools occupied in São Paulo (2015)."
Movie information: https://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-256550/
3th Meeting – Meeting of the Teaching Work Observatory
Topic: Teaching platforms and intensification of teaching work
Summary: Digital platforms adopted by education systems emerge as centralized control tools for teaching work and management. They are teaching platforms, with digital handouts, digital materials, ready-made classes, distance learning tools, among other mechanisms. The systematic use of this technological apparatus has promoted greater intensification, loss of autonomy, disqualification of teachers' work and their dismissal, as well as increased accountability. They are mechanisms that establish, in education systems and in public and private education institutions, a scheme of surveillance and punishment, with deleterious effects on the professional identity, collective organization, and health of teachers at all levels of education. Added to this precariousness resulting from the work process are the also precarious forms of hiring teachers and the simplified and cheap forms aimed at teacher training, with an emphasis on distance learning. These tools aimed at management and teaching are also commodities that open up new business opportunities for private companies controlled by financial capital. At this meeting, the observatory will discuss strategies and possible forms of resistance and struggle.
Date: 20 / 05 / 2025
Time: 19h to 21h30
Location: Google Meet
2nd Meeting – Theme: The meanings of teaching work and its challenges in the face of contemporary dismantling
Summary: In this meeting, the Teaching Work Observatory will discuss the effects of the current educational policy agenda and the management and control measures adopted in education systems and schools on working conditions. We will discuss the forms of precarious work and the impacts on people leaving the profession. However, it will be essential to discuss possible forms of resistance and struggle.
Date: 22 / 04 / 2025
Time: 19h to 21h30
Location: Google Meet
1º Meeting
Date: 18 / 03 / 2025
Time: 19h to 21h30
Location: Google Meet
Presented by:
- Work, Health and Subjectivity Study Group (NETSS)
Organizing committee:
- Cristiane Maria Oliveira Mendonca
- Fernando Bitencourt Lopes
- Lucilene Schunck Pisaneschi
- Monica Markunas
- Michelangelo Torres
- Port of Lima
- Gisiley Paulim Zucco Piolli
- Andrea Luciana Harada Sousa
- Iael de Sousa
- Mauro Sala
- Tania Barbosa Martins
- Flavia Teles dos Santos
- Erlando Reses
- Amanda Moreira
Responsible:
- Prof. Dr. Evaldo Piolli
- Prof. Dr. José Roberto Montes Heloani
- Prof. Dr. Iraci José Francisco