Pandemic, education and disability: narratives from parentes and teachers

narrativas de pais e professores

Abstract

This article is an excerpt of a research from an investigation of the Research Initiation Program (PIBIC) which brings to the discussion the pandemic, education and disability, through the narratives of parentes and teachers, especially with regard to how they are managing to serve the target audience of special education. Therefore, the question that guides the study is: What do parents and teachers of students with disabilities narrate about school education during the pandemic? Thus, this research aims to analyze the narratives of parentes and teachers about the education of students with disabilities during the pandemic. Therefore, we decided for a qualitative approach, through bibliographical, documental and field research. Data collection was carried out through document analysis and an online questionnaire through the Google Forms platform, with the twenty participants, ten teachers and ten parents of children with disabilities from public and private schools in the city of Maceió, Arapiraca and in adjacente municipalities in rural Alagoas. The results of this research reveal the challenges of teachers in the use of technological tools, as well as the difficulties in readapting pedagogical content so that students with disabilities can have access to classes; and, still, the impasses that both teachers and parentes are facing to make children focus for a long time in remote classes. Thus, we concluded that both the school and family need to resize their roles in view of the impacts that the new routines of study, work and social relationships are happening on the lives of children with disabilities.