Com a palavra, os professores: Desafios e emoções no ensino remoto de Língua Portuguesa da rede municipal de ensino de Petrolina-PE durante a pandemia de covid-19

Abstract

This article aims to understand the challenges and emotions experienced by Portuguese language teachers from the municipal education network of Petrolina/PE during the covid-19 pandemic. This is a qualitative research, based on the Anthropology of Emotions, considering that the experiences of these professionals were not individual, but collective, as they were shared in many ways. To this end, we conducted interviews with five teachers from the municipal education network, from different schools, to capture their conceptions, concerns and emotions about their professional performance during the pandemic. We base ourselves on Mauss (2001), based on analyzes of the expression of feelings as a symbolic behavior, far beyond psychology and physiology; Le Breton (2009) and Rezende and Coelho (2010), recognizing that the feelings under analysis emerge from social relationships and a cultural context; and in Rosaldo (1984), within the scope of American anthropology, approaching emotions as an anthropological category, therefore subject to investigation, among other important authors for this work. It was possible to identify the teachers' great concern and sadness when dealing with the topic, but also a feeling of accomplishment, even in the face of so many obstacles. We seek to systematically record this unprecedented period for education as a whole and hope to contribute to new reflections about the teacher's identity and emotions and their socio-historical construction.