Trabajo escolar en la postpandemia. Desigualdades y retorno a lo básico

This article analyzes some of the transformations in school work in basic education schools after the return to gradual attendance in 2022, following the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a sociomaterial approach that included interviews with teachers and analysis of student drawings, the forms of school work in contexts marked by inequality were explored. The findings show a return to “the basics” (reading, writing and arithmetic) as a response to the weakening of knowledge resulting from confinement. Tensions were identified between the return to the basics, providing containment to students and in the school-family relationship; a scarce integration of digital media in the classroom, and some differences in study spaces by school level. The article argues that school work in the post-pandemic period was crossed by tensions to sustain a richer and more productive link with knowledge in a context of intensified inequalities.