Pedagogical coordination in pandemic times: social representations and practices in public school

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Laeda Bezerra
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Ramos, Maria Isabel Francisco da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Gestão e Avaliação Educacional
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/regae/article/view/85425
• topic: Pedagogical coordinator; Social representations; Pandemic.; Coordenador pedagógico; Representações sociais; Pandemia.

This article aims to identify the social representations of pedagogical coordinators about their work in the context of the pandemic and indicating how such representations are related to their practices in public schools. The article results from a qualitative research, outlined as a field study, developed in two stages. In the first, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 10 coordinators of the Municipal Network of Recife, in the second, direct observation of the practice of a pedagogical coordinator was carried out. We analyzed the collected material with the support of content analysis. The results reveal that, in the coordinators' social representations, their work during the pandemic was difficult, affected by social distancing and lack of access to technological resources. However, the pedagogical coordination sought to offer support to the school community to guarantee student learning. By relating the identified representations to the practices of a coordinator, we found that the coordination has multiple functions, which compromise its performance in the continuing education of teachers at the school.