Alive and teaching, but… for how long? When social circumstances and pandemic times turn pedagogical passion into doubt and discouragement
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This work of introspection and personal reflection examines my beliefs, experiences and life experiences in the little more than ten years that I have dedicated to the teaching profession at different educational stages. Through an auto-ethnographic perspective, I re-examine my beginnings in the profession and analyse the transformation experienced from the current prism in which we live immersed, in which a worldwide health crisis can mutate the political, social and cultural aspects that surround teaching. By recounting particular events in the form of "threats to trust", the article brings to light the impact of current education policies and, in the medium term, of excessive bureaucratization, virtual teaching and lack of trust towards education professionals and their reflection in my personal and professional identity. The manuscript, approached with an evident spirit of dialogue and as a cathartic resource in these times of crisis, shows the erosion that public education in general and, in particular, the teachers who work in it, are suffering.
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