The impact of the pandemic on the indigenous school education of the Aldeia Limão Verde in the city of Aquidauana, MS

Abstract

This article aims to raise the difficulties experienced in indigenous school education in the context of changes from face-to-face classes to remote classes and to verify how Information and Communication Technologies are being used by teachers and students in times of pandemic. In order to understand the situation studied, we sought support in the following theoretical fields: Cultural Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and in the Modernity/Coloniality Group and in Paulo Freire's Problematizing Education. We chose to carry out a qualitative research. As a tool we use the structured interview. Thus, we interviewed the coordinator, teachers from the Early Years of Elementary School and parents of students from the Polo Lutuma Dias Indigenous Municipal School, in order to understand the impact of the Pandemic on children's education. Given the scenario exposed in this article, we can consider that educational problems are not the responsibility of the crisis generated by covid-19. Education problems are generated by policies that reduce funding and investment. However, the pandemic made visible the deficiencies that schools have and this should be seen as a way of joining efforts to change the reality.