TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVITY: SOCIO-HISTORIC STUDY ON COPING WITH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AT SCHOOL
Teaching activity; Pandemic; Social-historical psychology; Experiences; Meanings.
This study aims to understand the meanings constituted in the school experiences of primary school teachers in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic. To this end, we sought support from socio-historical psychology, whose categories of experience, activity and meanings, defined as intellectual constructions, made it possible to understand the movement of the reality of teaching work during the pandemic in a public school in the city of Natal-RN. Methodologically, the research followed a number of stages: initially, a survey of studies on the subject was carried out, taking as a reference the production of the state of the art. We then held a meeting at the school to present the research project proposal. Once the team of teachers and managers had accepted our research, we tried to find out about some of the characteristics of the structure and functioning of the institution. The school has five classes enrolling approximately 125 students in the early years of elementary school. In total, the school has a staff of 9 permanent teachers, 3 of whom were selected for the research, according to the criterion that only those teachers who worked remotely during the pandemic and who continue to work in the same school after returning to face-to-face classes could participate. In the process of producing data, we used the recurring interview, as this allowed us to return to the subjects taking part in the research. Once we had the material collected, we transcribed the interviews and went on to structure the analysis procedure, the process of which (floating reading, gathering pre-indicators and systematizing indicators) resulted in three nuclei of meaning, namely: 1) the working conditions of teachers in the pandemic and the teaching resources available; 2) the situations faced by teachers in carrying out their work in the remote format; and 3) the teaching methodologies used by teachers in the remote format and their implications for the learning process. Based on the analysis of these nuclei, we have come as close as possible to the research objective.