Compreendendo o papel dos professores, pais e encarregados de educação no processo de ensino e aprendizagem num contexto da Covid 19: uma etnografia na Escola Primária Completa Mártires de Mbuzine

Abstract

The present work aimed to understand the role of teachers, parents and parents and guardians in the teaching and learning process in the context of Covid-19, at Mártires Mártires de Mbuzine Primary School, Maputo City. The research is qualitative exploratory type, guided by the technique of direct observation and semi-structured interviews. As a theoretical reference, the research is based on the structuration theory which argues that social life has regularities of social conduct in which individuals act with a reflexive capacity before reality (Giddens, 1984; Casali, 2004). The results found from this study show the challenges imposed by the pandemic of Covid-19 in the teaching and learning process. Before the emergence of the Covid- 19 pandemic, teachers as well as parents and guardians reported the existence of productive interaction between the two parties, and parents would come whenever necessary to find out about the teaching and learning process of their children. With the pandemic, interaction has been limited. In this work, the interaction between In this work, interaction between teachers, parents and parents is seen as important, as it contributes the teaching-learning process. And also, the presence of parents and parents and guardians in the school context, and their collaboration with the school and the teachers encourages the student to learn, even in a pandemic context. The study concludes that this pandemic brought limitations in the teaching-learning process, which which resulted in changes in the teaching methods. With the physical distance the students started to have distance classes, by sending homework through Whatsapp, e-mails and also other means, such as other means were adopted, as for example, television transmissions, radio transmissions radio broadcasts. It was also found that the role of teachers and parents remains the same the same, to monitor the teaching and learning process of the students and with this pandemic, the With this pandemic, parents become fundamental agents in the teaching process, guiding their students to solve their homework.