Lack of empathy to teaching work: the disables experienced by the teacher during the pandemic

Abstract

This work highlights the importance of developing higher psychological functions, which are essential to enable humans to perceive themselves and their attitudes in relation to others in society. It also explores and denounces the lack of empathy for the teaching work that emerged during the pandemic, in addition to highlighting the particularity of school education for the process of human constitution. In contrast, it offers a bibliographic excerpt of research that includes empathy as a preponderant factor for coping with the illness of the teacher in times of crises and personal and professional insecurities. These, typical of the current scenario, denounced the lack of appreciation for this professional and explicitly presented social inequality along the lines of remote work. The theoretical assumptions of Historical-Cultural Psychology underlie the analyzes carried out in the article. The interest in the subject addressed is related to research developed by the Doctoral Program in Education at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul and the Study and Research Group in Psychology and Education of that institution.