Trabalho docente em tempo de pandemia de Covid-19: a produção de normativas educacionais em Portel-PA (2020-2022)

Abstract

The research's theme is teaching work and aims to analyze - based on Historical and Dialectical Materialism (MHD) - the debate that took place and the educational regulations aimed at the work of teachers in Basic Education in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in Portel-PA Municipal Education System (SMEP) between the years 2020 and 2022. To this end, the study revolves around the following research problem: how the debate around teaching work in the Municipality of Portel, in context of the Covid-19 pandemic, between 2020 and 2022? Based on this inquiry, other guiding questions are necessary, namely: Which representative social and governmental entities had a voice in the debates? What were the main interests/guiding instruments of the debate? What were the main divergent and convergent points in the debate on teaching work? What regulations were established and what guidelines for teaching work were consolidated? The approach is qualitative research, using the support of documentary research and content analysis. As a result, research has shown that, during the pandemic, debates surrounding teaching work, as well as the production of regulations aimed at the work of teachers in Basic Education, have been guided by the economic interests of the dominant bourgeois class, which has the State as its main ally. This time, the State has, through the production and implementation of educational policies, aimed at teaching work, contributed to reinforcing the hegemony of the bourgeois class and pari passu caused the precariousness of work, the intensification of work performance and the illness of teachers of Brazilian Basic Education, especially in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the pandemic and educational situation of the Portel-PA Municipal Education System (SMEP), the research points to the existence of a symbiotic relationship between the production of national educational policies and those that were established at the local level for teaching work, with strong counterpoints and necessary acts of resistance from social movements, in the debates that took place within the scope of the Portel Municipal Education Council (CMEP).