RURAL EDUCATION AND TEACHING KNOWLEDGE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PANDEMIC: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES
Field Education. Teaching knowledge. Remote teaching.
Rural education exists within a context of rural workers' struggles for the right to land. This struggle endures until the present day and remains firm in the objective of guaranteeing access to education for rural people, mainly, to a school education that dialogues with the specificities, needs and identities of life in the countryside. In addition to the difficulties that are rooted in many teaching units in the countryside, the pandemic emerged, and with it, the implementation of remote teaching, a fact that possibly influenced the teaching process of rural education. With this, this research will seek to answer the following question: what teaching knowledge was developed by rural school teachers during the pandemic? Is its application feasible in the post-pandemic teaching process? It points out as a general objective: to analyze the knowledge of teachers who worked in rural education in the cities of Pau dos Ferros - RN and Rafael Fernandes - RN, during the period of remote teaching. As specific objectives: to understand the characteristics of rural education in the cities of Pau dos Ferros – RN and Rafael Fernandes – RN; identify the methodological procedures developed and applied in conducting remote classes with students from rural schools; describe the teaching knowledge developed by rural educators in the cities of Pau dos Ferros – RN and Rafael Fernandes – RN during the pandemic and how they were developed; and identify possible applicability of this knowledge in the post-pandemic context. The research becomes relevant because, through its results, reflection and improvement may occur in the training process of teachers who work in rural teaching units. In addition, it will also serve to provide an overview of teaching knowledge and the teaching experience experienced by rural education teachers through remote classes. Regarding the research methodology, taking into account the research objectives, this is a study with a qualitative approach, which adopts autobiographical research as a method in which research participants will be able to reflect and dialogue about their experiences during the teaching period remote from the narrative of their experiences with remote teaching. The initial theoretical framework of the research relies on the following authors: Tardif (2014), Libâneo (2014), Almeida, Santos e Silva, (2020), Arroyo and Fernandes (1999), Freire (2015), Delory-Momberger (2008) , Nóvoa and Fringer (2014), Nascimento (2010), Nascimento (2018), Passeggi (2008), Josso (2004), Souza (2012). With the aim of establishing closer contact with the research participants and expanding knowledge about the objectives of the research project, a field survey was carried out. The research participants are 05 teachers allocated in teaching units in the rural area of the municipalities of Pau dos Ferros/RN and Rafael Fernandes/RN, and who experienced the period of remote teaching in rural schools. Data collection was done through conversation circles, and analyzes using Bardin's (2011) content analysis technique. It is worth mentioning that, at all times during the research, the ethical criteria for research with human beings were respected. At this time, the data is in the process of analysis.