Desafios e enfrentamentos no ensino remoto: perspectivas dos docentes dos cursos de licenciatura na UFTM

Abstract

In the year 2020, the world stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To avoid the spread of the virus, some social isolation measures were imposed, entailing many changes to people’s daily lives. One example was the closing of educational institutions, which brough some challenges to teachers, students, family and society for the continuity of education. In this context, this study aimed to answer the following research question: What are the challenges faced by professors teaching remotely in 2020 and 2021? The idea was to analyze the difficulties experienced by teachers in this period, in addition to identifying weaknesses in online teaching, discussing the training of teachers on the use of ICTs and assessing the prospects for the return of post-pandemic face-to-face activities. This research is exploratory and qualitative in nature, as the interpretation of the phenomena and the attribution of meanings were carried out in the process (GIL, 1999). The methodological strategy used for data collection was the application of a questionnaire, while the data analysis technique involved the adoption of discourse analysis to understand meanings of the data collected (ORLANDI, 2001). As a result, it was possible to identify the consequent readjustments made by teachers to their pedagogical practices, the increase in workload, the need to insert ICTs in the initial training of teachers and the importance of the use of information technologies for pedagogical activities.