Remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: repercussions from professors’ perspective

OBJECTIVES: to understand the repercussions of teaching work in remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in Higher Education Institutions in northern Santa Catarina. METHODS: a qualitative participatory action research, based on Paulo Freire’s theoretical-methodological precepts. Seventeen health professors participated in two Virtual Culture Circles held in the first half of 2021. RESULTS: six generating themes emerged for discussion, which aroused in participants’ feelings and perspectives regarding the remote teaching process in the pandemic context, with an emphasis on the connectivity theme, which generated dialogue through reports of personal experiences. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: the pandemic has had repercussions in sectors such as health and education. Professors talked about their experience in creating, recreating and adapting to remote teaching and the challenges facing the teaching-learning process, listing the worsening of mental health and the need to learn new digital technologies.