Teacher’s mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v11i15.37338

Keywords:

Illness of teachers; Remote work; Health-teaching work process.

Abstract

The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus brought numerous changes in the lives of the entire world population in the year 2020 and 2021, including the need to adapt to remote work. The category of teachers was one of those directly affected by this phenomenon. This article aims to analyze how teachers from a municipal public school in the city of Uberaba-MG who experienced the reality of adapting their work from face-to-face classes to remote classes and how this led to the emergence and/or worsening health and teaching work. For this, an exploratory descriptive research was carried out in the repositories of publications of articles and essays by electronic means and with the teachers we used a semi-structured online questionnaire in which the participants answered questions related to mental health in the midst of the circumstances generated by the new lived context and, later, a bibliographic analysis of the constructed data. As a result, we have a sample of teachers who went through a period of fragility and affectations in their mental health due to all the changes in the dynamics and conditions of the work available to exercise their teaching, and situations arising from this traumatic period of the Covid-19 pandemic generated in the personal and professional life here in the cut of the personal and professional life of teachers.

Author Biographies

Maria Vitória Caetano Rodrigues, Universidade de Uberaba

Graduating in Psychology at the University of Uberaba.

Romes Belchior da Silva Junior, Universidade de Uberaba

He has a Masters in Education, regular student of the Doctoral Program in Education at the University of Uberaba in the training line Professional Development, teaching work and teaching-learning process. Degree in ACCOUNTING SCIENCES from the FACULTY OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES OF TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO (2003) and LICENSE IN PEDAGOGY from the University of Uberaba-UNIUBE (2015). Professional Activity: Effective servant in the position of Pedagogical Coordinator of the Municipality of Uberaba, COLÉGIO UBERABA as a teacher in the technical courses of Secretarial and Electronics from 2011 to 2016. Polo Uberaba, served as Pedagogical Coordinator from March 2016 to October 2016. He has experience in the area of ​​Distance Education (EAD), Administration, with emphasis on Accounting Sciences and Human Resources. Topics of interest and research: Teacher work and health, school management, teacher training, public education, and in other areas such as: Planning, Management and Finance, Public Budget, Execution of Public Expenses and Human Resources: Public Human Resource Management and public tender public. Master's in Education from the University of Uberaba completed in 2016. He is currently Director of the Professor José Geraldo Guimarães Municipal School. In 2022, he took office as a member of the University Council of the University of Uberaba and a member of the Ethics and Research Committee of the University of Uberaba.

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16/11/2022

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RODRIGUES, M. V. C. .; SILVA JUNIOR, R. B. da . Teacher’s mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research, Society and Development, [S. l.], v. 11, n. 15, p. e253111537338, 2022. DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v11i15.37338. Disponível em: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/37338. Acesso em: 6 may. 2025.

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Vol. 11 No. 15

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Teaching and Education Sciences

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