Diniz's apparatus: the role of Instituto Península in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic
Pandemic, Instituto Península, Instituto Singularidades, Remote Learning, Training, COVID-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a scenario of desolation in education, however, even with the serious impacts on the teaching-learning process and the psychological traumas throughout the school community caused by the social chaos generated by the virus, there was a sector of the ruling class which saw a window of opportunity to deepen its activities within the educational system, including Instituto Península (IP), the social arm of the Diniz family (founders of Grupo Pão de Açúcar and Península Participações). The present work will focus on the intervention in IP education during the COVID-19 pandemic, when this APH carried out a series of surveys with teachers through its Vivescer platform on various topics such as the use of technology tools for remote teaching, the impacts on the lives of educators, training, etc. In our investigation, we used Gramsci's concepts of the Integral State and its Private Apparatuses of Hegemony (APH) as an analysis tool and theoretical framework, relating them to the studies of Aparecida de Fátima Tiradentes dos Santos and Lúcia Maria Wanderley Neves to investigate the amalgamation between the main APH's that work in education during the pandemic based on partnerships between Península and other institutions in research, what are the main changes in training advocated by IP and what is Península's role in promoting remote and hybrid teaching in the pandemic.