Everyday school life during the pandemic: the experience of teachers

During the pandemic there were numerous interventions and measures related to health and educational policies in Italy that concerned the world of schooling. This research, conducted between September 2020 and September 2021, focuses on the sociological study of education, analysing specifically the teacher-student educational relationship and its structural characteristics, the way it is thought of and practised during the transformation in time and social space, following of this precise historical passage resulting from the adoption of the COVID-19 school protocols, which in particular provided for the use of distance education. To this end, 100 teachers belonging to schools of all levels in the city of Messina (Italy) were interviewed. The objective was to collect the experience, starting from the difficulties and discoveries, adopted during Covid, that gave shape to a moment of rupture with respect to the daily life that characterised the pre-pandemic school, showing a sort of mismatch between the educational system and the life cycle. A semi-structured interview was administered as a survey instrument. The research made it possible not only to re-elaborate the emotional experiences related to online education, but also to reconstruct the everyday socio-relational plots of the school community.