Docência no contexto da pandemia da covid-19 em 2020: possíveis representações de professores sobre seu trabalho

Abstract

The global pandemic caused by the Covid-19 outbreak and the measures taken to contain the contamination in Brazil since March 2020 have had a profound impact on the work of teachers. This research aims to unveil constitutive elements of possible social representations created by teachers in their spheres of virtual interaction about being a teacher in the pandemic. The research is based conceptually on theorists who defend teaching practices that are strengthened in their creative and reflective dimension and which considers the teacher as a product and producer of their professional contexts. Sèrge Moscovici's Theory of Social Representations (1978) underpins the methodological choice for the construction of both the research object and the research tool for data collection. This research is also supported by contributions from further authors committed to the systematization and development of the original theory, such as Denise Jodelet (2009) and Jean-Claude Abric (2001). Data collection from the teachers invited to participate in this research was conducted through the application of a Word Association Task. The resulting data were processed by the software IRaMuTeQ (R interface pour les Multidimensional Analyzes de Textes et questionnaires), understood as fitting for research supported by the Theory of Social Representations. The quantitativequalitative analysis of the data reveals elements of possible representations about being a teacher in the pandemic, but also shows important absences, which point to a frail sense of solidarity among teachers and the need for continuous teacher training programs around the pedagogical use of technology. Based on these results, it was possible to extract content to guide the responsible teacher training teams in their tasks to give the participating teachers feedback regarding the research that was conducted based on their responses. Further the results serve to assist teachers in their needs revealed through this research to strengthen their teaching practices in post-pandemic times