Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
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Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Sérgio Arouca National School of Public Health, Postgraduate Program in Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Sérgio Arouca National School of Public Health, Postgraduate Program in Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This article aims to problematize, in the light of the precepts of workers’ health, the relationship between work and teachers’ health in a public school located in a territory of armed violence, as well as analyze their strategies of resistance and collective defense of health. This qualitative study was carried out through semi-structured interviews via videoconference due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The thematic content analysis technique was used, from which four categories of interpretation emerged: war scenario and teaching work; health and the perceptions of those fighting; resistance and strategies to defend health; and possible ways out. It was found that the experience of workers is fundamental to collective health protection. The violence that affects the work of teaching staff in the territory of armed violence was configured as a specific form of workplace violence. The teachers identified dialogue between the school, the community, and public security authorities as an effective solution for dealing with violence in the school environment. The construction of collective reflections and proposals emerged as a fruitful path for teachers’ work, which reaffirms the political and social role of the public school as an institution that represents the community and its workers.
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