This article focuses on the on the work of the teacher and its relationship with the official prescriptions and the working conditions at school: How do teachers describe the impacts of the working conditions which they are submited to? What are their expectations? How are the working conditions and the teaching specificities treated in official documents? Those questions are discussed from the meanings of "the work of the teacher" concept's perspective found in documents developed in the last decades. The analyses indicate that the notions present in these documents are correlated to the debate between the ideological positions taking part in this context, positions that constitute (the work of) the teacher.
The work of the teacher; Working conditions; Educational policy