Educational Work: possibilities for educational praxis and its dimensions

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to articulate and systematize arguments and understandings of meanings of pedagogical work. It presents a multidimensional model that can better explain this category. It is based on a concept of teaching as work related to the field of pedagogy that focuses on knowledge production. Based on this broad concept, subcategories, and indexes were developed and relationships established between them. Lower level meanings were thus obtained, which when articulated among each other, provide a broader conceptual reworking. This methodological sequence resembles the path taken in writing this text: it begins with a description of the understanding of pedagogical work, based on a model containing dimensions of this particular job and its articulations. Based on this multidimensionality, the paper presents another that it understands is more elaborate as a conceptualization of pedagogical work, in approximation with pedagogical praxis and with the school as context.