Covid-19 – A Variable that Changed the World: a Blow to Education

Abstract

Science and technology, interconnected, transform the behavior of humanity and influence its way of being and being in the world. COVID-19, as a major world crisis of this century, exposes countless problems in the ongoing civilization process, accentuates inequalities and drastically changes people's lives. It is a challenge both, to science and to the governments of all countries, as any decision taken has a direct impact on the various spheres of social life. In education, the abrupt withdrawal of students from the school space can be highlighted. Bearing this in mind, our objective is to analyze the impacts of COVID-19 for education, considering the main difficulties faced by families. By its nature, this study adds the following methodological composition: from the point of view of the problem, it is a qualitative research; considering its objective, it is an exploratory research; with regard to procedures, it is a bibliographic and field research. A questionnaire has been applied to 163 family members of students from a state school of Basic Education, located in the municipality of Chapecó - Santa Catarina. Within these 163 respondent families, 133 considered the school to be important indeed, 29considered it as to be important, and one family marked the school as not important. The new scenario caused by the pandemic reinforces the importance of the school, both for the subject's formative process, and as a space of reference and construction of the student's identity. The degree of importance highlighted by most parents demonstrates that the school has an irreplaceable social function, and its physical space is fundamental to the organizational process, both familiar and social. Just as for the adult, the physical space of work is configured as a reference that dignifies him as a social being, for the student, the school is a space of reference, a space that transcends the teaching and learning processes. Therefore, the pandemic context that caused adverse situations for humanity and that has substantially transformed the life and organization of Brazilian families brought to the light the importance of school as a space for socialization and knowledge.