DEPENDENT MODERNIZATION AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: reflections on face-to-face and off-site teaching

We understand that the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to inaugurating a new chapter in the organization of the Brazilian educational system, bringing to the fore the mix of face-to-face and non-face-to-face teaching. Thus, from the implementation of remote teaching in the municipal education network in Niteroi, we resorted to Florestan Fernandes' contribution to think that non-presential teaching can be problematized through the idea of dependent modernization. In this sense, we describe aspects present in the process of implementing remote education in the municipal network of Niteroi and report ideas present in the debate on this situation in a school in the network, emphasizing the context of literacy for first-year elementary school students. The initiatives that were taken to reorganize the 2020 school year during the pandemic, in the aforementioned education network, represent a further step in the incorporation of the educational practices of the country's teachers into the virtual and sociocultural environment of educational platforms created by the hegemonic countries.