Teaching work in pandemic times: the case of the Federal District
Education. Teaching work. Intensification of work. Pandemic
The present study has the general objective of analyzing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of teachers of basic education in the public network of the Federal District. It is known that the context generated by the pandemic brought to light the social abyss in which we live in Brazil and, even more, revealed the losses accumulated by the lack of adequate investments in education in the country. In order to verify the reality of the work of the professors of the State Department of Education of the DF, we outlined the following specific objectives: i) To describe how the teaching-learning process took place in the DF during the period of the Covid-19 pandemic during the years 2020 and 2021; ii) Investigate how the DF legislation contemplated the telework model of Public Network teachers; iii) analyze the experience of remote work of Public School teachers who worked in the academic years of 2020 and/or 2021; iv) analyze the working conditions of teachers during the pandemic. To this end, we adopted a qualitative research methodology, whose data collection took place through the writing of a personal letter by teachers reporting their work experiences during the years 2020 and/or 2021. After analysis of thematic content according to Bardin's assumptions ( 2016) of the letters, it was possible to find 5 categories that show the work overload to which the teachers were submitted, generating the intensification of the work of these professionals in the period of remote work. However, it was also possible to identify 1 category that covers the feeling of positivity and motivation of teachers when facing the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Also as a result of this research, a questionnaire was designed to collect quantitative data on the work of teachers during the pandemic, which will subsequently be validated and applied in future studies.