The social function of the chemistry teacher in relation to the pandemic in Brazil

Abstract

The Chemistry teacher has profuse responsibilities, or at school or outside it, that professional contributes to the formation of numerous citizens each year. In 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers had to rebuild The Chemistry teacher has profuse responsibilities, or at school or outside it, that professional contributes to the formation of numerous citizens each year. In 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers had to rebuild and meet a new requirement: working with distance learning. Along with this, the role of the teacher has changed, bringing other more urgent responsibilities, such as education to raise awareness of the prevention of this virus. Having said that, the present work is a conceptual analysis, which aims to understand the different social functions that the Chemistry professor assumed in the pandemic within the Brazilian context, through the use of an online qualitative questionnaire aiming to know different opinions on the theme. This questionnaire includes three discursive questions, the question "In general, what is the role of the Chemistry teacher in a pandemic?" is the one used for the categorization of responses and subsequent reflection on the themes brought up by them. To summarize, it was observed that most of the people managed to elaborate an answer that dealt with at least one topic belonging to the Chemistry professor's function, demonstrating that the presence of this professional is common in the daily lives of many people, and given the arguments exposed by the participants, they must educate in an equal and fair way, relating the content of Chemistry to the problem experienced, intending to prepare them critically to deal with this new conjuncture