The Teaching and the Learning in the Subjective Constitution of Being a Teacher in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

During the period of social isolation, there were numerous difficulties that teachers had in the mandatory use of digital technologies of the information and communication. To analyze the issue of being a teacher in the period of emergency remote teaching ERT, we carried out a qualitative study to understand how the subjective processes generated in the teaching and learning of teachers express the constitution of “being” a teacher. Two teachers from a private school in the Distrito Federal in Brazil participated in the research. The research instruments form interviews, timelines, formal and informal conversations. The results reveal that the subjective experiences of the participants and the social subjectivity of the synchronous video class were reconfigured, losing quality, not allowing the look and direct communication, the interaction is mediated by the computer screen, which is dispersive and ubiquitous. There are “avatars”, “icons”, talking “balls” and fleeting phrases in the chat. The participants dedicated themselves to the use of didactic strategies of online teaching, although the complaint of the absence of physical presence, of the communication through non-verbal language and the difficulty of controlling the students’ activities brought some difficulties to the affective in the teacher-student relation. This new social space brought another representation of “being” a teacher as a spy and television presenter. We conclude that in the ERT, the control exercised by teachers is weakened when the virtual interaction replaces face-to-face classes. It is expected the study can support school management and the return to classrooms in the post-isolation period.

Presenters

Mozaniel Mendes Pereira Lima
Student, Master's, University of Brasília in Brazil, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Wilsa Maria Ramos
Student, PHD - Devolopmental Psychology, Universidade de Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Technologies in Learning

KEYWORDS

Subjectivity Theory, Teaching, Learning, Digital Technologies of Information and Communication