Basic education in emergency contexts: what does research say about the reality of COVID-19?

The health seriousness due to the Covid-19 virus pandemic that has been installed worldwide since 2019 has brought news in all areas of social life. In Brazil, the federal government has little to do with public policies aimed at social areas. While science, in addition to numerous assumptions and being the object of government denialist discourses, has sought to contribute to the clarification of the phenomenon of the pandemic and its impacts on society. Therefore, the present study sought to analyze the panorama of research, in the period 2020 and 2021, on basic education in times of a pandemic. For that, from a qualitative approach, a bibliographic research was carried out in which 11 works were selected. The investigations demonstrate that the option for distance teaching has proved to be the main alternative for the educational offer in this scenario, but its implementation accentuates the educational inequalities that exist in the country.