Evasão docente e abandono da profissão: um estudo com professores do magistério público do estado de São Paulo

Abstract

This study is an effort to delimit and characterize various aspects of the phenomenon of teachers leaving the State schools of São Paulo, Brazil. It concludes that besides the low salaries and the little appreciation given to the teachers there are other factors that compose what the authors call the "process of abandonment". Based on an analysis of life histories of former teachers the suthors discovered that, besides immediate motives, teachers leave school because of the way they perceive the happenings of their professional lives. Thus, the factors which characterize the desertion process are related to work conditions offered by the educational system and school community to teachers, as well as teachers dispositions. their experiences, expectations and their life projects. In the end, the study presents the steps that constitute the process that leads teachers to leave State schools and even their careers.