The Return to in-Person Classes and the Feelings Experienced by Academics during the Covid-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

Considering the global pandemic caused by Covid-19, the world has been affected in various social and educational spheres, changing the formats of classroom classes for online teaching. With that, the return to in-person classes is being studied through the advance of vaccination. In this sense, this work aimed to describe the students' perceptions and feelings most experienced by them through eleven structured questions. A form was created using the Google forms application and made available through WhatsApp to a population sample of 152 students from two institutions, one public and the other private, in the city of Altamira-Para-Brasil. The results characterized the occurrence of feelings such as worry, anxiety, fear, stress, and sadness. Furthermore, it was observed that the pandemic affected the emotional aspect of the participants.