Abstract

TONDIN, Celso Francisco et al. Basic education during the Covid-19 pandemic: criticisms of remote teaching. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2024, vol.50, e264928.  Epub Apr 01, 2024. ISSN 1678-4634.  https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-4634202450264928por.

Remote teaching ensured social distancing for students and education professional during the Covid-19 pandemic, but received criticism from various sectors of Brazilian society, including education and psychology institutions. Given the lack of academic discussion concerning the phenomenon, this article identifies and analyzes criticisms made by education and psychology institutes to remote teaching in basic education. A qualitative and documentary research was conducted with 34 documents, published between March 11 and May 11, 2020 by six entities. Content analysis extracted 143 excerpts, which were organized into five categories. Results show that remote teaching is detrimental to the teaching-learning process: limited or non-existent access of students and their families to technological resources; precariousness of teaching work; violation of the right to education; commodification of education; and stripping of the school’s social role. Developed in a rapid and decontextualized manner, disregarding socioeconomic and racial markers, remote teaching increased teaching work and further expanded educational inequalities, which proved to be political and technical government strategies. Attacks on public schools increase in an ultraliberal and obscurantist context, but not without popular, democratic and libertarian resistance. This dispute is extended and updated in the pandemic context, as evinced by the institutional manifestations. Although they all present criticisms, these are neither homogeneous nor based on the same interests, with some showing concern for the market while others focus on constitutional rights.

Keywords : Basic education; Remote teaching; Covid-19; Pandemic.

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