The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted society in different areas. In education, several reports show the deleterious effects of the disease on the physical and mental health of students, family members, and teachers around the world. Also, in Brazil, affect studies indicate the prevalence of anxiety, stress, and depression among students. The present research, of a qualitative nature, explores what it means, under the lens of affect and from the student’s perspective, to experience remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online questionnaire of 41 closed- and open-ended questions was given to 363 students from a public school in southeastern Brazil. This article analyzes the affective fields that emerged from the discursive textual analysis of the students’ responses (n = 100). Four affective fields were categorized: friends, classes, home, and teachers; intersecting emotions, attitudes, values, beliefs, and motivation. In general, students expressed more negative than positive affect but a positive disposition toward face-to-face classes. Boys focused their affect more on classes, while girls on teachers. The affective fields allow us to consider the friends–home–teachers tripod as fundamental to overcoming the phenomenon of affective fatigue that has been identified.
Researcher Gerald A. Goldin presents a trajectory in mathematics education dating back to the early 1970s. His works position him as an influential researcher, contributing to investigations in regard to systems of representation and affect related to the teaching and learning of mathematics. Our primary interest in having a dialogue with Goldin was to record his considerations about the Affective Domain, with an emphasis on meta-affect, as well as to gather his views on current and future directions for research in the field.
O pesquisador Gerald A. Goldin apresenta uma trajetória na educação matemática que remonta aos primeiros anos da década de 1970. Seus trabalhos o colocam como um pesquisador influente, contribuindo com investigações sobre sistemas de representação e sobre afetos no ensino e aprendizagem de matemática. Nosso interesse principal no diálogo com Goldin foi o de registrar suas considerações sobre o Domínio Afetivo, com ênfase no meta-afeto, bem como coletar suas opiniões sobre o atual e futuro caminhos para as pesquisas na área.
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