EDUCATION IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC: SOME LESSONS FOR PUBLIC POLICIES BRAZILIAN

The social isolation established as a measure to contain the advancement of Covid-19 forced educational institutions, in conformity with Portaria 343/2020, of the Ministry of Education, to replace the classes in person with remote teaching. All levels and modalities of education were affected, generating discussions about distance education and remote teaching. In this paper, we sought to analyze the context of different educational levels and highlight their realities and problems, to reflect on the lessons for public policies in Brazilian education. Therefore, a bibliographic research was carried out as the first step to map the theme. The paper includes the analysis of articles by Brazilian scholars who are references in the studies of education, and of official documents and publications from entities linked to the educational field, such as ANPED, ANDES and MIEIB. We conclude that the context of the pandemic is serving as a justification for reforming Brazilian education, resulting in a process of legitimization of distance education that opens up the serious and historical problems of social inequality, which requires the strengthening of the public character of education and social public policies.