EDUCATION IN SENSITIVE TIMES: CONTRIBUTIONS OF MORAL AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL SKILLS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PANDEMIC AND POST COVID-19

This essay aims to reflect on the contributions for education of the moral and socio-emotional competences in sensitive times, triggered in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on theoretical studies that support the emergence of moral and socioemotional competences, we propose connections that underpin the moral perspective of an educational praxis that offers possibilities to live and interact in school and in society, in an ethical and democratic way. We analyzed that the advent of the pandemic, with the sudden adaptation to the remote scenario, increased the sensitivity and, at the same time, caused an impact on the educational process, by excluding the possibilities of living with diversity, in interaction with others and in the experience of the public space. These experiences are fundamental aspects for the construction of values and the development of socio-emotional competences that are even more urgent nowadays.