Teaching work and implications of affirmative actions in the medical school of a public higher education institution.

Abstract

The aims of the present research are to assess the af- firmative policies of the Medical School at Federal University

of Minas Gerais (UFMG) to analyze professors’ work at Ra- cial Quota scope and changes in the university due to such

a process, and to better understand how professors in Med- ical School face racial topics. It must be done by under- standing labor as a core dimension since without workers

one could not talk about society, education, and economy. Therefore, this research addresses labor from a perspective that goes beyond utilitarian purposes. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. Professors in the Medical School Faculty, who have been teaching since 2013, were the investigated subjects - this

year was chosen because this is the time when Racial Quo- tas were put in place at UFMG. Changes in the higher edu- cation scene due to the affirmative actions that have been

taken and the understanding of the Teaching Function as an educative principle allowed professors’ work to overcome models imposed by the market logic.