O novo normal da covid-19: quando o emergencial se transforma em política educacional

Abstract

This article analyzes the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on the Brazilian public school. We start from the understanding that this humanitarian tragedy is part of the framework of the organic crisis of capitalism that has been gradually destroying social policies, deteriorating the living conditions of the working class and devastating the natural world. The aim of this study is to analyze how the government has positioned itself in the face of the necessary closure of schools and how the strategy of remote education has become common sense and has been incorporated by state agencies and civil society organizations. As sources of reference in this article, the opinions and notes issued by international organizations were used, in addition to the studies of the All for Education Movement and the Innovation Center for Brazilian Education, on the situation of schools during the pandemic. The theoretical methodological framework developed by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci helped to problematize the performance of business fractions within the scope of the formulation of “remote teaching” as a strategy for maintaining classes during social isolation and in the defense of a return to school plan, even though the vaccine has not been created. It was concluded that both the remote education project and the plan to return to classes are part of a set of strategies promoted by the dominant fractions that aim to recover from the organic crisis of capitalism and at the same time deepen the capital offensive on public education in the country.