A inclusão digital como corolário do Direito à Educação: análise dos impactos da pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil

Abstract

On March 11, 2021, WHO assessed COVID-19 as a pandemic, disease caused by the new coronavirus. Since then, Brazil, as a society and state, saw itself with the need to revaluate its social structure in its many aspects, especially education. As such, this research aims to analyze digital inclusion as a corollary of the right to education, focusing on the developments and adversities manifested in the teaching-learning processes, carried out by the Internet and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in remote education. Initially, the concept of education in the national legal system is presented along with the legal nature and the constitutional foundations of the social right to education, treated as access, permanence and quality, as well as its relationship with digital inclusion. Therefore, the multiple dimensions that aggregate the debate on digital exclusion/inclusion are discussed, followed by the presentation and analysis of concrete data about the student reality in remote education, together with the subsequent discussion on the legal basis for digital inclusion. Finally, considering the thoughts of Paulo Freire and Edgar Morin about education for autonomy and in the planetary society, digital inclusion is analyzed as a corollary right to the right to education based on its humanistic contributions.