The challenges of Rural Education during the pandemic: the case of the Unipampa Rural Education course - Campus Dom Pedrito/RS

Abstract

This article, in addition to presenting the context in which Unipampa's Countryside Education course has been consolidating itself, aims to address the strategies of the Countryside Education course in confronting the pandemic. To this end, a broad consultation was carried out with students to develop these strategies. A questionnaire was developed using an online form, consisting of multiple choice questions, with socioeconomic and psychosocial dimensions, information about Covid-19 and digital technologies, the impacts of the virus on school and study conditions. The application provided an active search for all students, through social networks, in order to access our entire audience. Based on this understanding, it was possible to identify situations of multiple vulnerabilities prevalent among students on the course and, concomitantly, plan actions capable of enabling the continuity of studies, given the precariousness of education and access conditions for students, under this new pandemic perspective. Although the course's efforts to adapt pedagogical actions have minimized the negative effects of imposing the remote-emergency model, we noted the complexity of implementing the actions developed, at the same time that we were able to maintain resistance articulations of Rural Education and revive hopes.

Keywords

• rural education
• pandemic
• unipampa
• emergency remote model
• re(existence).