A resistência e a sobrevivência das professoras na rede pública estadual de Santa Maria ; The resistance and the survival of women teachers of the state public network in Santa Maria

This study, developed in Research Line 2 – Teacher Training Professional and Technological Education, sought a discussion about the triple working hours of teachers. The Project emerged from the observations of the researcher, who is a state teacher, from the perspective of gender studies, and investigated the participation of women, teachers, in state schools covering Santa Maria, as well as the female presence, their historicity, with emphasis on to the heart of RS, reflecting the illusory fragility of being a woman to the undeniable resistance of continuing to fight, the patriarchal system and the illness of teachers and their absences on LTS (health leave), in the period from 2018 to 2021. In this study, we opted for documental research, having as support the bibliographic survey, through consultation of books and scientific articles and the decolonial methodological theoretical approach in the Freirian perspective. Based on documents provided by the State Department of Education, it was proposed to analyze the number of absences in LTS, of teachers from the State Public Network, covering Santa Maria. The study was structured in four chapters. In the first one, the historicity of the EPT in Brazil and in the city of Santa Maria, the Pandemic Scenario and the Triple Journey of Teachers were built, seeking to expose the theoretical framework that supported the study. In the second chapter, it brought the researcher's life story and an approach about Feminism, Decolonity and Epistemologies in the So-called Global South. The Third Chapter addressed the Patriarchy of gender relations and its influences, the feminization of teaching, giving relevance to teaching work, and to female teaching as resistance. Subsequently, the fourth chapter dealt with the effects of work overload on the health of teachers, and the illness of teachers, possible causes and absences – LTS (health leave) from the classroom. As a questioning, it was intended to investigate whether the overload of the triple shift is a determining factor ...