Educación virtual en tiempos de contingencia. Un acercamiento a la realidad del docente venezolano.

Since the first cases of Covid-19 occurred in the region, Venezuela was one of the first countries to take preventive measures against the spread of the virus, including the closure of educational institutions and the transition to distance education. In the case of private educational institutions, they have made efforts to implement virtual educational models. Hence, this research seeks to approach the experiences of Venezuelan teachers in the Metropolitan Area of Caracas in the context of virtual education during the contingency. It follows a methodological approach from the phenomenological interpretive paradigm using the tools of the hermeneutic circle to the texts of the interviews applied to key informants. The results make clear three fundamental elements of the current Venezuelan educational reality: the challenges of teaching work and the development of resilience, the utopia of virtual education in Venezuela, and the new role of the teacher in times of contingency. However, teachers recognize that the new reality has pushed towards the transformation of learning spaces through virtuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]