O trabalho docente na universidade no contexto da pandemia da COVID-19: práxis e alienação

Abstract

This text aims to (re)think, through a process of critical reflection, the teaching work at the University in the context of COVID-19. Thus, we present aspects of the established scenario, especially how it surfaced social problems and evidenced the segregation policy established in Brazil since the beginning of the presidential election in 2018. In the field of education, the quarantine condition imposed what became known, within the scope of Brazilian universities, as a system of non-presential classes (REANP), once again segregating and distancing social subjects from the political struggle. Teachers and students found themselves overnight inserted in an "other class", there was no longer the physical space (the concrete) - the classroom, but unknown platforms and programs that had to be implemented without the help of training not even technical, perhaps critical and reflective. Finally, based on the concept of critical education, we also discuss that the categories of dialectical historical materialism, namely: work, alienation, ideology, social class, contradiction, denial, totality, universality, mediation, infrastructure and superstructure, are opportune for reading of the teaching work at the University, in short, of its internal and contradictory nexuses, enabling a critical-reflective understanding, for example, of the nature of remote university classes.