Síndrome de Burnout: percepções dos professores envelhescentes dos programas de pós-graduação em educação da UFT

Abstract

Addressing the theme of Burnout Syndrome, the objective was to identify whether the aging Teachers of the Federal University of Tocantins, from the Pedagogy course, working in the Graduate Programs in Academic and Professional Education, perceive themselves in the face of the characteristics that can lead to the Syndrome of Burnout. Dialectical historical materialism was chosen for this research, adopting a qualitative approach methodology. For data and information collection, a bibliographic review and field research were carried out. For this, semi-structured interviews were used as an instrument. Aging teachers between 45 and 60 years old participated in the research. The analysis of data and information was done through content analysis. According to the data collected and analyzed, it was observed that these aging teachers often perceive themselves with characteristics that can lead to burnout, especially when they observe the social, political and economic devaluation of the category. It was also noticed that aging is not in itself one of the stressors triggering this syndrome, however, if this aging is not experienced in a coherent way, with health and mind care, it can become a factor of illness , since this is a time that many changes occur, both physical / biological and social. Physical changes are visible from birth, but how each person will experience this process depends on their social and economic context. In this way, the importance of changes on the part of the State, the institutions and the teacher himself is highlighted, in order to minimize the consequences both of the demands of the labor market, which generate stressors that trigger burnout, and of the changes generated by the process of aging, which are inevitable, but need not be sickening.