The pandemic may be over, but the effects it has had on Brazil’s education is not. This is the assessment of the executive director of Todos pela Educação, Olavo Nogueira Filho.
In an interview with CNN Rádio, the researcher says that the impacts “will have lasting repercussions”, stressing that “we cannot think that, after the pandemic, everything will automatically return to its axis”.
A survey carried out by the Datafolha Institute points out that 61% of young people in Brazil agree that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused irreparable losses in education.
For Olavo Nogueira Filho, such losses highlighted by the survey may be of an educational nature, such as “the direct effect on learning”, but also from other areas, such as psychological.
“There is social pressure on young people to enter the job market with the intention of supplementing their family income”, he says. “These are economic impacts fundamentally in light of the pandemic”, adds the expert.
According to the executive director of Todos pela Educação, some states and municipalities in Brazil are “doing their homework” by launching emergency actions for post-pandemic education.
“Governments are acting to get all students to return to schools to promote a series of welcoming actions, emotional health support, learning recovery actions”, he lists.
Examples of state and municipal public policies cited by Olavo Nogueira Filho are the active search for students, financial assistance for high school students and programs to support students’ mental health.
However, for the researcher, “the country’s picture has been very uneven and heterogeneous”. He states that “there is effectively no coordinated action at the national level for post-pandemic recovery”.
“In a country like Brazil, with continental dimensions and a federative structure in which states and municipalities have a lot of autonomy, a federal policy at the national level focused on education is necessary,” adds Nogueira Filho.
*With production by Bel Campos
Source: CNN Brasil
