O trabalho remoto nos tempos de pandemia da Covid-19: Um estudo das vivências de prazer e sofrimento com professores/as da rede privada de ensino

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought several transformations to the entire planet, especially to the world of work, given the social isolation. Thus, one of the institutions that most changed its practices, due to the impossibility of performing its activities in person, was the school, because it needed to resort to technological means to fulfill its educational function. In this sense, this research aimed to understand the subjective experiences of pleasure and suffering that permeated the work of elementary school teachers from a private school in Campina Grande/PB, when teaching remote classes during the Covid-19 pandemic. For this, we adopted as theoretical and methodological reference the Psychodynamics of Work, having as a starting point the conceptions of suffering and pleasure conceived by Dejours, as well as its relationship with the organization of work and the implications on the worker's health. An adapted methodology from the PDT method was used, based on collective discussion meetings in a virtual way, in face of the pandemic, using a semi-structured script, through the Google Meet tool. The discussion group had the participation of six teachers. As far as data analysis is concerned, the methodological model of core of meaning analysis was used. The results of the research pointed out that the remote work has disrupted the organization of the work known by the teachers, who started to experience several constraints related to technological issues and in the relationship with the institution. In addition, the data showed that the relationships between teacher-family-student were experienced in an ambiguous way, sometimes as a source of suffering and other times as a source of pleasure. Another fact was the dilution of the barriers between the public and the private space, increasing the work overload. The research showed that the teachers were active in facing the contingencies and constraints of the real work, using their intelligence and organizing themselves in a collective and virtual way.