El “desierto digital”: repercusiones de la COVID-19 en la Educación en España y Brasil

Abstract

With the emergence of Covid-19, the way of doing and thinking education permeated by digital technologies came up with sudden and never before seen strenght as we experienced in the year of 2020. With it, the new educational reality is highlighted in the distance between the bodies and the distance in teaching and learning processes, which has had numerous impacts in the daily practice of education. This investigation seeks to know the Basic Education professors and lecturers perceptions in Spain and Brasil, about the repercussions of Covid-19 in Education. It is a descriptive-exploratory investigation, with qualitative focus, that performed 12 semi-structured interviews to Basic Education teaching staff from both countries. The results indicate that the abrupt incorporation of digital technologies lead to a great suffering to teachers, on the account of a lack of training, lack of minimum working conditions, emergence of new professional and psychological demands, as well as generational differences in the relationships with the technologies.