Educação infantil em período pandêmico: uma análise das dificuldades vivenciadas por professoras de uma CIEI do município de Santa Rita-PB

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in alarming rates of contagion and deaths since 2020. As a result, public and private institutions have ceased face-to-face activities and social interaction has been made impossible. Pedagogical and school practices needed to be adapted to a new reality in all types of Basic Education and Higher Education. Educational institutions tried, during this period, to meet learning needs without presence, with Emergency Remote Teaching (ERE) which, in turn, was approved by the Ministry of Education (MEC) in 2020. series of challenges, with the use of alternative methodologies and the use of information and communication technologies aimed at the teaching-learning processes of children. Many educators contributed and committed themselves to seeking new ways to educate remotely, but the difficulties of the pandemic context made explicit several realities that mirror the social/racial inequalities existing in the country. The work seeks to understand, from the voices of the teachers, research collaborators, the difficulties experienced by them at the Integrated Center for Early Childhood Education (CIEI), located in the municipality of Santa Rita, in Paraíba, during the pandemic period. The research, which has a qualitative approach, is based on semi-structured interviews with three CIEI educators. The survey results showed how much the pandemic exposed the reality of social and educational inequalities experienced, mainly, by children in the Integrated Centers for Early Childhood Education, where public policies did not meet the needs of these groups, victims of the racism that scares the country, the lack of of access to technological means and the difficulties mentioned by the educators, such as the emergency adaptation to the ERE, demonstrate how difficult it was for Early Childhood Education to face the pandemic period.