"EVERY TEACHER IS AN EDUCATOR": ANALYZING AN EVIDENCE FROM PEDAGOGICAL DISCOURSE

The aim of this study is to analyze the mythification process of the teacher's work in the pedagogical discourse materialized by discursive sequences collected from the section "Caro Educador" of Revista Nova Escola. To this end, we based this investigation on the interface between the Pecheutian Discourse Analyses principles and Roland Barthes's Theory of Myths. The hypothesis of this paper is that the pedagogical discourse registered in Nova Escola takes over a memory domain in which pedagogical and religious discourse are connected by the reference statement: every teacher is/must be an educator. This statement consolidates an interdiscursive relation between pedagogical and religious discourses and provides evidence for a conception of teaching as missionary work or divine calling. The results of these analyses show that, in different ways, the teaching work is signified by the absence of its marketing sense. Marked by an aura of nobility and spirituality, the teacher's activity is strongly charged by the priestly sense.