EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC AND ITS DEVELOPMENTS: REFLECTIONS ON THE POTENTIAL OF RESEARCH-TRANSFORMATION

Abstract

This article intends to discuss the perspective of Trans-Formation Research, which has been developed by a research group belonging to the Graduate Program in Education: Psychology of Education, the Teaching Activity and Subjectivity Group (GADS). This modality brings in its historical significance a call to revolutionary action, stressing the critical and transformative action that can be excited in the reality researched. This article deals with an analytical excerpt about the training meetings held with an average of fifteen teachers from public schools in the city of São Paulo, who proposed to discuss the challenges of the teaching-learning processes during the pandemic. The objective of this research was to apprehend the subjective dimension of educational processes in times of pandemic and their developments. The intention to develop research and formations, decisively in this critical Marxist perspective that we deal with here, can be perceived in the scientific praxis movement of this research modality - which has as its cornerstone criticism, the need to apprehend social reality beyond its appearance, which considers the historical movement of reality, which maintains the theoretical-methodological coherence in the dialectical conception of the interrelations theory-practice-method-technique-synthesis. All this rigorously and explicitly assumed from the choice of the object, the objective, the procedures and forms of analysis and interpretation. In this path guided by the dialectic research-form-transform, based on the contributions of Karl Marx, Lev Vigotski and Paulo Freire, we reflect in this article on the potential of teacher education development conducted under the modality of Trans-Formation Research, showing the relevance of research processes in the creation of important mediations in critical consciousness formation, unveiling alienation conditions.