"My God, how do I operate this program?": a dialogic analysis of conversations with faculty members practicing Remote Teaching in pandemic
Pandemic; Remote Learning; Bakhtin; Dialogic Conversation; Teacher Training, Online Education.
This paper seeks to investigate the teaching experience of Remote Teaching, an alternative found for the continuity of formal education in schools, given the limitation of social and physical interactions, understood from the perspective of professionals who worked in the pandemic context of Covid-19, in the period 2020 and 2021. We will build understandings about how the distance affected the teaching practice and what were the actions taken in an attempt to overcome such a sudden challenge. We have chosen to build comprehensions through individual conversations and conversation circles, having as interlocutors the teachers of Colégio de Aplicação de Resende, given their effective practice of online Remote Teaching strategies since the beginning of the social distancing. The theoretical assumptions are based on Mikhail Bakhtin's Philosophy of Language (1992, 2014, 2010, 2017, 2020) and Paulo Freire's conceptions of education (1980, 1987, 2000), which point - on the one hand - to the indissolubility of the three spheres of culture: ethics, aesthetics and epistemology, tied to a responsibly active attitude due to the "no alibi of existing" and - on the other - to dialogue as raw material for human relations, consequently, for education and research. Throughout the study, concepts of cyberculture and online education, based on Pierre Lévy (1998; 1999) and Edméa Santos (2019, 2021), are introduced to broaden the discussion on online education. In order to ensure safety, protection, and also that the rights of participants are guaranteed, as well as research integrity and honesty in the treatment of data, especially in the dissemination of the knowledge extracted, the subjects of this research filled out the TCLE before any involvement with this work.