Given the current context of Brazilian public basic education, the present study aimed to investigate the strategies of collective mobilization in professionals of education at a public elementary school of Distrito Federal, Brazil, from the perspective of psychodynamics of work, which considers such mobilization as a way to reframe the experience of suffering into pleasure at work. We used the dejourian methodology, using non-systematic observations, documentary analysis and six collective non-structured interviews with 12 workers - school teachers, teachers in other functions and the educational advisor - from the same school it could be concluded that the individual defense strategies are predominant and the collective mobilization among professionals from different tasks is impaired by the lack of a public discussion where they can discuss their anxieties and pleasures of everyday work.
Work; education; school