Abstract

SOARES, Júlio Ribeiro; SILVA, Maria Socorro  and  SOUZA, Allan Solano. Pandemic and Social inequality: impacts on the educational process in a rural school. Educ. Form. [online]. 2025, vol.10, e15987.  Epub Nov 18, 2025. ISSN 2448-3583.  https://doi.org/10.25053/redufor.v10.e15987.

This article discusses the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic and social inequality on the schooling of elementary school students in a rural school located in a municipality in the state of Ceará, based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of socio-historical psychology. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with teachers who had teaching experiences during the pandemic. Their statements were analyzed based on the procedure of nuclei of meaning, which resulted in a nucleus called rural education: social inequality and its impacts on the pandemic, consisting of three indicators, namely: social inequality and impacts on the school reality; educational challenges: shortages, support, and training needs in rural education; and the school as a space for confronting the social inequality experienced by students.

Keywords : democratization of education; right to education; rural education; popular education; educational equality.

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