In this article we present the results of two documents produced by official agencies that aim at guiding the teachers' work in Brazil and in Switzerland. On the one hand, we focused on detecting the textualization features used to prescribe the teacher's work. Results show that besides the common prescriptive features of the two texts (enunciator's erasure, felicity contract etc), these documents carry a more complex thematic structure, articulating a prescriptive doing, a source-doing and a prescribed-doing. We have also tried to identify the forms of building the object of prescription, which led us to see in both contexts that such object embeds a global pedagogical proposal rather than the actual work of the teachers, the latter not being represented in the texts as actors with a real responsibility in the development of the proposals and, at the same time, presenting the students as inert targets. This work also enabled us to raise some differences in the textualization forms of the prescriptions examined in a way of relating them to the political-economic contexts of the two countries. Eventually, we raise some possibilities about the reasons for the non-consideration of the actual work carried out by teachers in such kind of document.
textual analysis; educational work; prescriptive texts; prescriptive doing; prescribed doing
