Continuity of Educational Action in the Angolan Household's Context During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

This article results from a study that aimed to identify the educational forms adopted by parents and guardians, to support the teaching and learning process of their children, and how these (forms) were implemented in the family context and / or home care during the quarantine imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We opted a methodology based on the quantitative paradigm, and the data has been collected through a questionnaire survey, answered by a sample of 50 parents and guardians. From the investigation, the following results stand out: the number of children interferes with the organization, guidance and decent conduct of educational activities at home; the children's content notebooks and school manuals were considered the most used means during home classes; accompanying children during tele-class, assisting them in writing texts, solving math exercises and tasks left by teachers before family confinement, were seen as the forms of teaching support, most used by parents during the period of social isolation.