"... THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THE CLASS TO BE ‘COLD’ ..."AN ANALYSIS OF THE MENTAL SUFFERING OF STUDENTS IN REMOTE EDUCATION

Abstract

This article aims to study the mental suffering of students in vocational education. Its approach will be centered on French ergonomics and resists traditional approaches to formalizing practical-professional knowledge in the area of ​​occupational health and safety. Conventional education systems, based on traditional classrooms, were adapted to adapt to the public health crisis of Covid-19 and started to adopt virtual classrooms. The solution found to continue with academic calendars was to adopt the remote system. Remote learning, however, is limited to act in the transmission of explicit knowledge, but not with the transmission of know-how. The initial hypothesis is that this type of teaching leads to an increase in students' mental suffering. The objective is to apply the SQR-20 questionnaire, investigate and score the strategies adopted by students to deal with the dilemmas in teaching and, with this, propose solutions that best suit the demands presented. It is expected that the results of this study can promote improvements in teaching-learning of remote activities and also provide actions that enhance the health of students in educational institutions. Based on the results, 75.0% of the class presented mental suffering and developed characteristic anxiety disorders according to the SQR-20 questionnaire, which corroborates the high levels of anxiety in students in online education verified in the literature.