Gênero e trabalho: assédio moral entre educadores e policiais militares

Abstract

The present study focuses on the area of Education to which relational themes, such as, Gender and Labor have converged. It specifically investigates the moral harassment phenomenon in the context of work relationships among two distinct professional categories, that is, educators and policemen, from the theories of Saviani and Duarte (2010), Delors (2010), Correia (1997), Louro (1997 and 2008), and Barreto (2000), among other uthors who contributed to the understanding of the object of this study. Due to its interconnection in social relations, as well as in professional practices, and also due to its subjective nature, moral harassment is still scarcely explored. This has generated gaps in the realm of Education, Ethics, as well as Gender and Labor relations, which, through this study, we try to minimize, starting from a qualitative methodological approach in the guidelines of Cervo and Bervian (2002) and Apolinário (2004), by using a questionnaire as an instrument for data collecting, and administered to previously selected universes, a sample of sixteen subjects representing two professional categories was drawn, of which eight (8) educators and eight (8) policemen. Results show evidence of moral harassment in the investigated areas. Such evidence leads to the need to investing in studies in the Pedagogy graduation course, that involve the theme, not only in the educational management, curricular practices, school versus community relations, but also educational values, which is basic to all the other professions.