O teletrabalho na educação a distância do Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas: uma análise crítica

Abstract

The emergence and development of new information, communication and media technologies reconfigure traditional forms of work performed physically in person to other forms of virtual and non-face-to-face work. In this wake, the discussion about teleworking within the distance education environment arises. The objective of this study is to analyze the working conditions and specificities involved in telework undertaken in distance learning at the Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas Gerais - IFNMG, which is a public educational institution whose coverage area represents 42% of the State of Minas Gerais. The distance education offer at the IFNMG relies on the telework of tutors, who make up the information object of the empirical work of this work. The methodological approach starts from a qualitative-quantitative perspective, with a preponderance of quantitative data, collected through an electronic questionnaire, submitted to 100 participants, with 75 respondents. The study also had the support of methodological procedures of documental, bibliographic, bibliometric and descriptive statistics research for theoretical foundation and analysis of the findings. The dissertation was structured in three chapters, the first two being the theoretical development on the central theme and characterization of the institution and its actors, and the third chapter, dedicated to the summarization, interpretation and analysis of data, allowing, at the end of the work, a general conception of telework, as well as the tutors' telework characteristics, forms of recognition in the telework modality, the conditions and specificities of telework undertaken in distance learning at IFNMG. The theoretical discussion was mainly based on the works of Daniel Mill, Ricardo Antunes, Giovane Alves and Axel Honnet. The study was set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, in which telework emerged and accelerated across the globe. These aspects were discussed in the body of the work.