A invasão do smartphone na sala de aula – sobre a autoridade do professor, violência, o privado e o público no ensino.

Abstract

Abstract: Nowadays, there are more and more postings of videos of students ‘videos against teachers on YouTube. Recorded secretly, such videos record images of teachers in humiliating and vexatious situations, many of which are associated with teacher’s refusal to allow the presence of smartphones in classrooms. In this context, the aim of this article is to reflect on the decline of teacher authority in the face of the massive use of smartphones by students. Thus, we have analysed two videos of great worldwide repercussion, whose images were recorded in schools in Brazil and Portugal. After analysing the relationship between the images and speeches of teachers and students, it is concluded that, in the first video, the teacher assumes the role of hero in a battle that, for many students, was already lost: he acts as a kind of exterminator who wins the dispute with the cell phone through an absolutely energetic reaction. Already in the second video, there is a kind of bankruptcy of education. When the teacher female refuses to return the student's smartphone, there is a violation of the taboo in relation to the teacher, since the destruction of her authority is present in the face of the physical and psychological aggression attributed to her by the student.