Abstract
ABSTRACT No doubt, this is a time of crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on people’s lives is tremendous. The pandemic affects human beings in different ways, depending on their place in society, but everybody is somehow affected: in finances, emotions, behaviors, to mention a few. The same is true about education. Institutions, teachers and learners are pushed to debates and changes never considered, which raise a number of uncertainties. Motivated by discussions the authors took part in as teacher educators, a documentary research was conducted, focusing on national and local documents published due to the pandemic. Based on the data collected, in this article we aim at discussing their possible implications for teacher education.
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic, an unknown and aggressive disease that may result in a high death rate due to the lack of specialized professionals and equipment to treat people who are infected, has been showing us, not in a poetic way, that our personal and professional plans, and all our assurances are, uncertain; and because of that, we may be forced to review them
After around a year, we are still living through a period of crisis
We understand the importance of problematizing, in the field of applied linguistics, as language teacher educators, dichotomies that have been part of literacies research, such as: science versus non-science, us versus them, as we understand the intrinsic connection between literacy education to political and ideological aspects, to mention a few
Summary
“Nothing that has been will be again as it was some day.” These verses have been sung in Brazil since 1983 and they help us think about the ephemerality, temporality, and transience of life. Considering that Brazil is part of the Global South, and so are those individuals involved in education in our country, there is no doubt that, together with other groups of workers, teachers are subject to much pressure to go back to work, no matter what this might mean to their lives. This situation is deepened, especially considering the political moment the country is currently facing. All these points have been materialized in educational documents, such as the ones we analyze
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