Uma pandemia com cor na educação infantil: construindo relações educativas entre telas em tempos de (pós) pandemia da COVID-19

Abstract

This qualitative and participatory research is part of the unique moment experienced by humanity, the Covid-19 pandemic (2020-2022). Thus, inserted in this pandemic context and experiencing all the particularities that the pandemic exposed us to, it was as a teacher of Early Childhood Education, that I realized that for most of the pandemic period, the affective and learning relationship with the children in my classes at the Sebastião Branco Public School were built through a mobile phone screen. Based on this experience, this dissertation work sought, from a research with children, to discuss what Costa (2002) claims to be the role that new technologies establish as changes in the way of life, indicating profound transformations, including in the different forms of assume our humanity. Therefore, I sought to investigate how the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can help the educational process of preschool children, without compromising the foundations and principles of Early Childhood Education and what are the questions introduced to us post-pandemic. As a black woman myself with a humble origin and who suffered from exclusion since childhood, I saw in the absence of black children in Early Childhood Education in Teresópolis the opportunity to act as a teacher/researcher, dialoguing with those with whom I build my pedagogical work. So, when I found out that Maykconn Felippe, a 5-year-old black boy, could not participate in our remote meetings, because the cell phone he would use was the same one that his sister used during her school hours, I delimited a racial focus in the research, due to the structural racism to which the black population is subjected, making us realize that in the school, the social/technological inequalities and racism are still very present, also crossed by the Brazilian social formation, based on a structural racism (ALMEIDA, 2019), dilemma which is still trivialized and historically ignored by the concept of a racial democracy in the country.