“Tired, Overwhelmed, Frustrated”: Emotional Challenges of Primary English Teachers During the Pandemic: Case Study in San Carlos, Costa Rica

 

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Autores: López-Estrada, Patricia, Elizondo-Mejías, Jonathan, Pérez-Hidalgo, Estefanía
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2024
Descripción:Introduction. COVID-19’s health crisis put a hold on all educational processes worldwide. This was not the exception for Costa Rica at the Ministry of Education. In March 2020, it was proposed that distance education was going to be put into practice. Purpose. This paper focuses on the feelings the participants communicated during the study. This was part of a principal investigation that used a case study methodology based on inductive qualitative research. It had the purpose of describing the perceptions of four English primary school teachers from the Dirección Regional de Educación San Carlos (San Carlos Regional Education Office) regarding distance education during the sanitary emergency of COVID-19. Methodology. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, lesson plans, and video recordings of pedagogical mediation and professional contexts. The data were analyzed using semantic categories from content analysis (Hatch, 2002) and the Web Qualitative Data Analysis (webQDA) software (Costa et al., 2019). Results. Results suggest that teachers reported experiencing a range of emotions before and during the pandemic, with the majority being negative in nature. Among the most notable were uncertainty, stress, confusion, overwork, a sense of difficulty, sadness, and worry. Other feelings included discrimination, impotence, and disrespect towards the teachers and the families’ specific contexts. This study presents the teachers from their human dimension as professionals who endured the pandemic within their own educational contexts. The study also shows the importance of effective communication and taking into consideration psychological support to strengthen the emotional integrity of the teachers.
País:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Lenguaje:Español
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Portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/17333
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/EDUCARE/article/view/17333
Palabra clave:Costa Rica
COVID-19
Distance education
English teaching
Primary school teachers
Qualitative research
Feelings
SDG4 Quality education
Educación a distancia
Enseñanza del inglés
Docentes de primaria
Investigación cualitativa
Sentimientos
ODS4 Educación de calidad
Educação a distância
Ensino de inglês
Professores primários
Pesquisa qualitativa
Sentimentos