Salas de aula e webcams vazias: memórias de professores/as da educação básica sobre a pandemia de Covid-19 a partir da produção de um documentário

Abstract

With the arrival of Covid-19 in Brazil, the Ministry of Health announced a series of sanitary measures to prevent the circulation of the virus in the country. One of these measures adopted was social isolation. Soon, public and private schools had to close their gates without a set date to reopen. However, private education institutions and education departments in Brazilian states began to develop educational policies so that education continued to function in the middle of the pandemic. With the implementation of these policies, teachers and students of basic education were inserted in remote education, however, what calls our attention in this apocalyptic period in which we witness were the difficulties that teachers had in adapting to this imposed modality. However, in addition to the presence of difficulties that hinder the performance of the teaching work, the teachers had to live with attacks from authorities and a part of civil society that saw the coronavirus as a “little flu” that was hindering the economic development of Brazil. It is in this scenario of uncertainties and attacks from the category of basic education teachers that the Geography/History subproject team of the Institutional Scholarship Program for Teaching Initiation (PIBID) at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Santa Mônica campus, had the idea of ​​producing a documentary. Developed from the memories of teachers from schools in the municipality of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, the documentary Solitude, pandemic and education: The educational experience in the pandemic seeks to present how teachers dealt with the difficulties imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Therefore, the present work seeks to report the production process of a documentary designed and created in the midst of a pandemic.