As dificuldades do acesso à educação escolar para a classe trabalhadora na Pandemia

Abstract

This essay is a bibliographical study based on the Dialectical Historical Materialist method elaborated by Marx, on Vygotsky's formulations, and on the Cultural-Historical Theory. The present study aims to access school education for working class during the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as to demonstrate the impressions resulting from this analysis. In order to reach the objective, the work is organized in two parts: First, we seek to understand access to school education and the acquisition of knowledge in a capitalist society. Thereafter, we analyze how school education takes place for working-class children and young people during the pandemic. In a capitalist society, access to school knowledge is fragmented for most people. During the pandemic, in order to restrain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, public schools were closed down. Many working-class children and young people did not have sufficient access to school knowledge, since most families had experienced economic limitations, affecting the purchase of electronic equipment and internet packages to access classes held remotely. These factors limited the learning and development of working class students, as well as their social interaction. In light of the above, we realize the importance of public school education in a face-to-face model to guarantee the acquisition of basic knowledge since access to public education is a worker’s right as well as their possibility for critical education.