Reflections on the teaching work: the evil to be of the performativity in society of the fatigue

Abstract

The day-to-day work of education professionals who work in teaching is constantly marked by excessive workload, based on effort, external pressure and the speed with which they perform their functions. This has led to the loss of physical and mental health of teachers, transforming their work into suffering. The intention of the study is to present some reflections developed by the South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul-Han, from the concept of Society of Tiredness and its relation with the studies of Stephen Ball on performativity. Since the excess of work and the absence of otherness have produced a hysterical flow of production and great inversions of values, resulting in a sensation of fatigue in the contemporary world, it is understood that the mode of production in which we live, in addition to exploiting the force the development of diseases and depression. The purpose of the article is not specifically to present the meaning of depression and its symptoms, but to consider the type of society we live in that is based on the belief of the "yes" and that everything is possible that ceaselessly seeks quality, performativity and excellence of professional teaching performance. Such facts lead the subject to false freedom. By understanding how to be free, the lord of his own actions and decisions is actually immersed in self-exploration to arrive at the expected performativity. The exploitation movement generates a paradoxical freedom, which ends up manifesting pathologically in the psychic illness of the teacher.