Da missão nobre ao desprestígio: representações da identidade docente nas páginas da Tribuna de Minas

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how the news of the newspaper Tribuna de Minas, from Juiz de Fora, represents the teachers‟ identity, in order to understand the aspects of the Framing and the social roles assigned to teachers through the transmition of events and educational discussions. From theoretical assumptions about the construction of identity and the processes of socialization in contemporary times, with a decisive role of the media and of the journalistic activity, that we conducted a content analysis as a methodological approach in order to verify the trends of news construction and of teachers‟ representation. This research has also aimed to correlate the results of the content analysis to teachers‟ perceptions about teaching in press coverage, through the execution of a focus group.