Estresse em professoras de um centro de educação infantil

Abstract

Teachers in Brazil have precarious work conditions due to lack of funding, recognition,work intensity, among other issues that lead to an emotional and physical strain, causing their sickness with greater ease. The stress is a factor that affects personal as well as professional life and can be the generator of physical and psychic illness,as it will be presented in this article, which aims to showcase the causes of stress in teachers from an Early Childhood Center and its implication on the teaching work. This article carries the results of a qualitative research, resulting from a thoroughtheoretical research on stress in education and health consequences, participantobservations, as well as interview data from four teachers that work at an Early Childhood Center located in of citythe Santa Catarina. Prose analysis was the used data analysis method (ANDRÉ, 1983), which prioritizes free interviewer speech and was anchored on the theoretical framework by the following authors: Nassif (2010), Martins (2007), Gatti (2010), Witter (2003), among others, that discuss subjects related to education, stress and illness on teachers. The research results pointed that the stress generated by the work occurs due to issues that involve the children (ECC students) and their families, and that, very often, the stress caused by involvement in those issuesbrings setbacks, conflicts and, as a consequence, the illness and physical and psychic exhaustion. The teachers also reported stressful experiences on other ECCs in which they worked.