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SOUSA, Clarilza Prado de; ENS, Romilda Teodora  e  OSWALD, Serena Eréndira Serrano. The construction of the social thinking of teachers and pedagogical coordinators about the COVID-19 pandemic: a study in social representations. Práxis Educativa [online]. 2023, vol.18, e20929.  Epub 16-Fev-2023. ISSN 1809-4309.  https://doi.org/10.5212/praxeduc.v.18.20929.007.

In this article, it was aimed to understand the social thinking in the face of the pandemic, formed by groups of female Education professionals - teachers and pedagogical coordinators - to understand their social representations about the COVID-19 pandemic process. Initially, it is reflected on the perspective of social representations and architecture of social thinking to address this topic. Subsequently, in a qualitative approach research, a Free Word Association Test on the word “pandemic” was applied, and it was asked to describe “how their experience with the pandemic was in their professional life. The data produced in 2020/2021 with 58 women, after being processed by the IRaMuTeQ software, allowed the Prototypical, Similitude and Descending Hierarchical Classification analyses, which triangulated to a traditional qualitative microanalysis complemented by thematic analysis, with theoretical support from the Theory of Social Representations and of Education Policies at that time, in Brazil, made it possible to apprehend their representations in the pandemic spatial-temporal context experienced.

Palavras-chave : Social representations; Female Education professionals; Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic..

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