“WE WERE NOT PREPARED FOR THIS”: DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS 'AGENCY IN PANDEMIC TIMES

Abstract

This article deals with the transformations caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic in the teaching-learning processes and the way in which this phenomenon has affected the ways of living and working of Basic Education teachers in Brazil, especially in the context of private education. The main objective of the study is to understand how the development of agency by teachers in social isolation has affected the organization of new remote teaching practices that have emerged in the current situation. The guiding thread of this discussion lies in the interrelationships between teachers, based on language, in a professional training meeting given through a virtual platform. The theoretical and methodological basis that guides him is the Critical Collaboration Research, PCCol, (Magalhães, 2012). The analyzes carried out are subsidized in the language studies (Liberali, 2012, 2013) and in the agency studies (Edwards, 2007, 2011; Engeström, 2007, 2011; Stetsenko, 2017; Ninin and Magalhães, 2017; Liberali, 2017). The results point to a complex reality that was shaped by the need to accept the difficult pandemic context, so that we could take a critical stance in the face of the imperative reality of the workforce that finds support in the school community's active processes.