Teachers and schools - The social image of teachers of the basic education in Portugal

Abstract

The present work sought to highlight the factors that challenge the teaching profession and that influence the social image of the profession, taking into account the basic education teacher’s situation in the Contemporary Portugal. Above all, it aims to understand to what extent the social transformations have been reflected in the Portuguese school and in the paradigm of the teacher’s performance. The question is: To which new roles, new responsibilities, and new social relations are they called? What type of changes can be verified in the design of the profession, its public image and professional practice conditions? These questions centred on the unblinding of the ethos of the profession and social image have motivated this work which has been developed around the main problems, dilemmas and ethical challenges of the profession, highlighting the phenomenons of recognition and social visibility and considering the own teacher’s perceptions and the perception of the others belonging to the public sphere.

Keywords

• profesores
• escuelas
• imagen social
• ethos de profesión