Education in Brazil and Italy during the pandemic context: brief overview

Abstract

This work is the result of a postdoctoral internship carried out in 2020 and which aimed to identify the problems in the educational field revealed during the health emergency in Brazil and Italy. In this sense, it sought to monitor the reaction of each country in overcoming obstacles to offer education to the population of students in sanitary isolation. It is a qualitative approach research, based on theoretical references, documents, and data from official platforms. We have as results some emergency measures adopted over the months following the pandemic outbreak, which included access to technologies and infrastructure in schools, valuing and ongoing training of teachers. The public policies prove to be fragile and discontinuous, although in Italy the propositions are gaining momentum since the European Union collaborates in the designing of some agendas. From this data we need to reflect on the need for more emphatic propositions and actions that bring alternatives for the strengthening of teachers and schools within a digital literacy perspective.