Desafíos de la docencia indígena en pandemia: reflexiones a partir de una encuesta virtual en 2020

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted daily life around the world, modifying routines and chores and imposing social isolation as a preventive measure. One of the most significant measures was the closure of schools, to move from face-to-face education to virtuality. Within this framework, this paper proposes, on the one hand, to reflect on the challenges that ethnography must assume in the face of isolation and the new methodological tools that are required to link us with our empirical referents. On the other hand, it presents the adaptation of a methodological strategy (the survey) to a digital environment. This survey aims to give an account of the experiences of teaching the Toba/Qom language in the framework of Intercultural Bilingual Education in the province of Chaco (Argentina). This article presents both the methodological decisions implicit in the design of this survey, as well as some of the results obtained on indigenous language teaching and teachers' work in pandemic.