Professores de Língua Inglesa e o período pandêmico: desafios e inovação educacional

Abstract

The central theme of this research proposal is the experience of teaching during the pandemic period, based on the memories and testimonies of English language teachers at the Federal Institute of Piauí - IFPI. Drawing on the concept of the "complete" and "omnilateral" teacher (Manacorda, 2008), who connects education to the world of work (Saviani, 1989), and the notion of collective memory (Halbwachs, 2006), the study aims to characterize the work of these teachers during the pandemic and identify the challenges and opportunities they encountered in their pedagogical activities.To develop this analysis, we opted for a qualitative interpretive approach where the methods of inductive thematic analysis, as proposed by Braun and Clarke (2006; 2014; 2016), were combined with the perspective of Oral History. In this sense, the main operationalization path involved the elaboration of oral sources through interviews with English language teachers and a critical analysis based on the architecture of themes and their coding, from the perspective of Thematic Analysis. To this end, English language teachers from different campuses of the Federal Institute of Piauí were interviewed, according to inclusion criteria and the acceptance of those willing to participate in the data collection phase.In conclusion, the need for Professional and Technological Education to be considered a priority on the social agenda is highlighted. In other words, while the importance of this type of education is growing in Brazil and Piauí, the testimonies of the interviewees reflect the need to prepare a generation capable of operationalizing the contents of the core curriculum alongside those of the career and technical education), in the face of possible crises and the demands of an increasingly competitive job market.