Abstract
We present part of the research on the precariousness of teaching in Brazil. It is an in-depth discussion about teaching in higher education, in the present context. The hypothesis is that these teachers are submitted to the alienation and precariousness of labor by means of the recruiting, selection, hiring and evaluation policies, that deprives them of control over their work. Taking historical and dialectical materialism as reference, we utilized documental analysis to study the case of a state university. We identified as indications of the precariousness of teaching: the application of institutional evaluations for the management of the teaching staff; staff cuts; the substitution of disciplines for internships and teaching practice; e-learning; the lack of retirement recognition policies; and the policies that impose a productivist logic to the teachers in activity.
Keywords
higher education; intellectuals; university; teaching work; educational policies