“My dear companions”: epistolary narratives from teachers about teaching in times of pandemic
Thesis letter, Sociopoetics, Teaching narratives, Pandemic.
In this thesis, I analyze the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on school education, educational practice and teaching subjectivity. Adopting sociopoetics and epistolarity as a methodological foundation, the research brought together memories-fragments and epistolary dialogues from eight teachers in the Initial and Final Years of Elementary School from two public schools in Espírito Santo. The methodological strategy consisted of interrogating the experience of virtuality and remote teaching through the production and sharing of epistolary fragments-memories, aiming to identify the learning and transformations experienced by the teachers, thus forming a self-(hetero) reflective exercise/ training in teaching. The theoretical-conceptual contribution of the research encompasses the vast literature on the pandemic, teaching work, gender and self-narratives. Considering the centrality that epistolarity assumes in this research, whether as an instrument of data production or as a focal point of analysis, the work is organized in the format of a thesis letter.