The pedagogical work in literacy classes: emergency remote teaching and other emerging contexts

Abstract

Faced with the unprecedented pandemic scenario and the imposed model of remote teaching in the Brazilian educational reality, teachers had to reevaluate their work and create new ways to facilitate access to education. In the literacy phase, seen as the formal introduction to reading and writing, the teaching and learning relationships as well as the development of inclusive practices with students were abruptly impacted. Therefore, the objective of this article is to discuss how this situation mobilized the pedagogical work of literacy teachers, based on qualitative research and a narrative sociocultural methodological approach. The presented results stem from a master's research project on teaching and learning in literacy classes during the pandemic. The research context is a municipal schooling reality, in which narrative interviews were conducted, based on guiding topics, involving the participation of nine teachers who worked from 2020 to 2022. The findings point out various challenges that potentially revealed and highlighted emerging contexts in these spaces, emphasizing students' socioeconomic conditions, issues of access, digital knowledge, and family involvement, among others. Along these paths, there emerge movements that demonstrate the ability to overcome challenges, continuous learning, and the use of new teaching and learning formats, increased family involvement brought about by the efforts of looking to students, and the resilience of teachers throughout this extended and intense period of emergency remote teaching and its consequences.