Impacto causado pela pandemia do COVID-19 no rendimento acadêmico dos estudantes de educação física: um estudo de caso no curso de Licenciatura em Educação Física da UFRPE

Abstract

The suspension of face-to-face classes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, led to the adoption and execution of the Exceptional Academic Period (PLE) in Brazilian federal public universities through the publication of Resolutions nº 85/2020 and after nº 185/2020. The Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, in compliance with these resolutions, started to offer, in remote format, curricular subjects and other activities, due to the suspension of face-to-face activities as recommended. With the provision of emergency remote teaching, the facilities and difficulties provided by its adoption in higher education began to be discussed. In view of this context, we start from the following concern: What are the impacts caused by the Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19) pandemic on the academic performance of students of the Degree in Physical Education at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco? To answer this question, the general objective was proposed to identify the impacts caused by the Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19) pandemic on the Degree in Physical Education at UFRPE, and as specific objectives: 1- Identify the differences between the Remote Learning and Distance Learning (EAD); 2- Identify how the Degree in Physical Education was organized to fulfill the pedagogical activities and to account for its eminently practical character in the social distance imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic; and 3- Identify some positive and negative aspects that facilitated and/or were impediments to teaching activities during the Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19) pandemic for teachers and students. The present study consists of a qualitative research that aims to produce information, we use as a strategy the case study, about a current phenomenon in a real context, the case of the Degree Course in Physical Education at UFRPE in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Documents produced by UFRPE and by the course in its collegiate were analyzed. The results found when we analyzed the technical report of the DEFIS Teaching Commission, and by the Structuring Teaching Nucleus, point out as a positive consequence for students the opportunity to complete the course and for teachers to take a course in the area of information technology and as a consequence negative: lack and/or difficulty in connecting to the internet, lack of computer, difficulty in concentration for students and teachers, lack of mastery of platforms and lack of pedagogical practice to work with practical subjects. These negative factors were some of the main impacting consequences for the academic performance of UFRPE students.