ABSTRACT
The researches on teaching, especially in the graduate school context, have collected information that shows the intensification of the teacher’s work, in which productivism prevails. In this context, this study aims to understand the effects of productivism on the teacher’s work and its impact on the structuring of professional self-concept, in view of the dysfunctional aspects derived from economic rationality. The qualitative study was carried out through in-depth interviews made with the participation of six teachers belonging to different graduate programs. The analysis was carried out through the development of categories that emerged from the collected reports, we found the naturalization of work overload, evaluative distortion of research activity in relation to education and extension activities; misrepresentations of professional self-concept related to the perception disassociated between education and research; in addition to the professional achievement attributed to the student figure.
Keyword:
productivism; professional self-concept; teaching career; postgraduate studies