PANDEMIC AND RACIAL INEQUALITIES IN BRAZILIAN EDUCATION: CRITICAL VIEWS

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze the impact of the new coronavirus pandemic on the worsening of educational inequalities in Brazil. In the face of the declared situation of global emergency, it is a matter of discussing both the strategies adopted by educational institutions, with the predominance of digital and technological mediations, and the challenges in the current context, which are reflected in the inequalities of access to high-quality education, in the increase of school dropouts, and in the gaps in learning. The limits of remote or distance learning practices are questioned, mainly in public education, in a country characterized by extreme socioeconomic and racial inequalities, in which the logic of sacrifice, elevated to the rationality of government, places the responsibility for success or failure on the subjects themselves, so that inequalities come to be conceived as inevitable mechanisms. Finally, we conclude that without the promotion of racial and social justice, it will not be possible to guarantee the realization of education as a social right for vulnerable groups in the country.