Light, camera... Education!: A reflection on the challenges faced by teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

In 2020, the Brazilian educational system was faced with a huge challenge: to provide quality education through remote teaching, as a consequence of the social distancing forced by the Covid-19 pandemic, a  highly contagious severe acute respiratory disease. Although there is much discussion about the use of new methodologies and digital instruments in the school environment, most schools, especially public ones, were not prepared for this context, the pandemic accelerated this movement that made teachers overnight appropriate the most diverse virtual teaching instruments in the search for teaching opportunities for all. It is on this educational movement in the face of remote teaching during the pandemic that this article brings its reflections, through consultation of legal documents on remote teaching and reflections, which pointed out how fragile the Brazilian public education system is and how teachers have been reinventing themselves, in an attempt to promote good education, in the use of various digital tools that are available to teachers currently mentioned throughout the text. Despite all efforts, remote education has not been able to reach everyone much more for economic and political reasons than for the efforts of education professionals.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/uniknowindevolp-137