Pandemia, ensino remoto e a língua portuguesa: lançando olhares para a atuação docente em Jaguarão-RS

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic imposed a new reality for the current generation. Like so many other areas of human life, Education has been strongly affected, especially with the adoption of emergency remote education in private and public schools across the country. The present work investigates how three Portuguese language teachers from the city of Jaguarão were introduced to this new reality and how their teaching practices the adaptation to the non-faceto- face education system has occurred. This is a qualitative and descriptive research, with theoretical support based on the legislation relevant to education and on authors who have worked on the themes of teaching the Portuguese language, teacher training and technologies, and also in articles written in this pandemic time about the thematic addressed here. In order to embody the investigation, the question arises: - Were the teachers trained to work remotely? - How has it been to re-elaborate the face-to-face classes to the digital format? - What are their fears? - What are their expectations? - Have these been matched? - What lessons will this atypical time teach? In this sense, and in an attempt to find answers to the guiding questions of the present work, we got in touch with three Portuguese language teachers from the municipal, state and private spheres of schools located in Jaguarão - RS, in the final years of elementary school. They were asked to answer a questionnaire containing twelve questions. The present study does not intend to deal with all the emerging educational problems, with the purpose of, through the analysis of these three specific cases, and based on the theoretical framework of specialists such as Vani Kenski, José Manuel Moran, Roxane Rojo, Irandé Antunes, João Batista Bottentuit Junior and Clara Pereira Coutinho, demonstrate and point out the existence of other teching “possibilities”. Despite all the negative charge imbued at this time, the reflections that have been produced by educators committed to their craft converge towards a more promising future for Education, with a real potential of overlapping between teaching, learning and technologies. This is a small fragment of all the fabric that has been built these days and that is expected to give new clothes to Education in our beloved country, replacing the broken and worn fabrics in which old and inefficient educational practices are constituted. Here, there are no certainties, but hope for the future.