Covid-19 pandemic and use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies: Relationships of senses and meanings by teachers in rural schools in the municipality of Caruaru-PE
Digital Information and Communication Technologies. Field Education. Pandemic
This research has the general objective of understanding the senses and meanings of Digital Information and Communication Technologies - TDIC for teachers of rural schools in the municipality of Caruaru-PE, given some emerging needs in their educational practices in the pandemic conditions of Covid-19.It is a qualitative research, whose data construction took place in two moments: i) an online questionnaire by sending a link through the WhatsApp application and by email, which allowed us to focus the lens on some participants, to experience the second moment of the research; ii) a dialogue on the Google Meet platform, in which the Focus Group technique was used with nine teachers.In its epistemological structure, the entire research seeks to dialogue with issues related to the pandemic, with a specific interest in understanding the processes experienced by teachers working in rural schools in the municipality in focus.We consider that in such schools, there is or should be a distinct applicability/dynamicity for activities and curriculum, in relation to urban schools, favoring the daily life of the countryside in its practices.To this end, we outline the following specific objectives: to identify meanings of social practices with TDIC by teachers of rural schools;characterize and relate the actions and statements of teachers mediated by TDIC during the pandemic, in the daily lives of the field. From a historical-cultural and critical theoretical approach on teaching-learning processes, technology and emphasizing the role of peasant culture and the conditions of existence of rural subjects, we proceeded with the analysis of the data anchored in the Dialogical Analysis of Discourse, whose base refers to Bakhtin's circle (2003).As a result, we found: the pandemic appeared as a contributing factor for some teachers to reconfigure their work methodologies, given the scenario of remote classes and deepen their knowledge to work with TDIC; there was difficulty for teachers to acquire and receive technological artifacts, due to the closing of commercial establishments during the quarantine period;there were also difficulties in reaching students and rescuing the interest of those on the other side of the digital screens. It is important to highlight, in the results, the senses and meanings of the TDICs for the participating teachers, which highlight the social voices in defense of technology, justified in their arguments by the possibility of approximation and affective bonds with the students, used to rescue the interest in the studies to be from educational practices, such as the conversations and advice they had in Google Meet classes.We identified in some statements, voices that are converging with the idea of the countryside as a place of life, of identity construction, but this is punctually placed in our last question to teachers, and examples of content about "riparian forest and organic products of which you can make insecticide with cassava", with the objective of "valuing what comes out of the ground", which for teachers, are subjects that are often not considered in education, which makes it impossible, many times, for students not to see the field as a place of possibilities.However, there is no deepening on the struggles for land, on the contribution of TDIC to rural schools, although there is an emphasis that it is possible to teach pedagogical content and learn using TDIC by remote class, however, no example is cited of what can be created with them in favor of/for the field.