Infância(s) e educação infantil em tempos de pandemia: um olhar sobre as produções acadêmicas (2020-2021)

Abstract

The pandemic caused by Covid-19, with a record of the first case in Brazil at the end of February 2020, caused the world to go through a turnaround that affected several dimensions of daily life, in Brazil and worldwide. Measures to contain the spread of the virus were taken and, among them, is the need for physical isolation, which also affected the functioning of educational institutions, the lives of children and their families. Therefore, the following research question arose: what discussions and issues have been pointed out when it comes to the possible impacts of the pandemic on the ways of life of children from babies, their families and their educators? That said, the research aimed to map academic productions on childhood(s) and early childhood education in times of pandemic, published in the period between March 2020 and June 2021. This is a qualitative investigation carried out from procedures survey mapping methodologies. The results indicate that the period of physical isolation has brought multiple consequences for children from babies and their families, due to a complex set of factors that involve the context of loss of social and educational rights, and also the way in which the pandemic has been faced in the Brazilian context, which has caused an intensification of existing inequalities in Brazilian society, especially when we analyze the situation from the markers of difference: class, gender, race and age.